packer-post-processor-amazon-ami-management

Packer post-processor plugin for AMI management

Description

This post-processor assists your AMI management. It deletes old AMI and EBS snapshot using amazon-ebs builder's access configuration after bake new AMI.

Installation

Packer supports plugin system. Please read the following documentation:

https://www.packer.io/docs/extend/plugins.html

You can download binary built for your architecture from latest releases.

Usage

The following example template.json:

{
  "builders": [{
    "type": "amazon-ebs",
    "region": "us-east-1",
    "source_ami": "ami-6869aa05",
    "instance_type": "t2.micro",
    "ssh_username": "ec2-user",
    "ssh_pty": "true",
    "ami_name": "packer-example {{timestamp}}",
    "tags": {
        "Amazon_AMI_Management_Identifier": "packer-example"
    }
  }],
  "provisioners":[{
    "type": "shell",
    "inline": [
      "echo 'running...'"
    ]
  }],
  "post-processors":[{
    "type": "amazon-ami-management",
    "regions": ["us-east-1"],
    "identifier": "packer-example",
    "keep_releases": "3"
  }]
}

Configuration

Type: amazon-ami-management

Required:

identifier (string)
- An identifier of AMIs. This plugin looks Amazon_AMI_Management_Identifier tag. If identifier matches tag value, these AMI becomes to management target.
keep_releases (integer)
- The number of AMIs.
regions (array of strings)
- A list of regions, such as us-east-1 in which to manage AMIs.
- NOTE: Before v0.3.0, this parameter was region. Since 0.4.0, region is not used.

Developing Plugin

If you wish to build this plugin on your environment, you can use GNU Make build system. But this Makefile depends on Go 1.9 or more. At First, you should install Go.