Aerospike AMI using Packer

This repo contains instructions to build Enterprise Aerospike AMI using hashicorp Packer

Templates will install Aerospike 5.5.0.3.

Currently following distrubutions are supported :

Prerequisites

AWS CLI, installation instructions can be found here
Packer >= 1.7.0, packer installation instructions can be found here
AWS account with access to create, update ec2 instance, ebs. This can be restricted based on IAM task or Instance Role as per Packer docs
User have knowledge of region where they with to build ami, otherwise default region is selected (us-west-1)

Export AWS variables

$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID>
$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>

Following will build ami for the template and install aerospike on the system.

$ packer build -var 'region=<AWS_REGION>' templates/aws/[name]

region - [optional] The region where build will be performed. Default us-east-1. It is recommended to provide this value
instance_type_amd64 - [optional] The instance type for the instance. Default t2.large.

use packer validate command to validate template and packer fmt to format the template.

$ packer validate templates/aws/ubuntu