aelinadas / amazon-machine-image

Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

AMI stands for Amazon Machine Image i.e. a special type of virtual appliance that is used to create a virtual machine within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. It serves as the basic unit of deployment for services delivered using EC2.

I have a web application to be deployed to cloud. This repository contain configuration for building custom AMI for deploying and running webapp Bookstore

The AMI is built and made available on the AWS accounts by using CircleCI pipeline. The CircleCI pipeline leverages Packer to validate and build AMI.

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AMI ARCHITECTURE

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AMI CUSTOMIZATION

1. Install Java 8 and Maven using java.sh shell script
2. Install Tomcat Server using tomcat.sh shell script
3. Install AWS Cloud Watch using cloud-watch.sh shell script
4. Install AWS Code Deploy Agent and start it using deploy-agent.sh shell script

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Validate AMI

sh packer validate ami.json

Build AMI

sh packer build
-var 'aws_access_key=REDACTED'
-var 'aws_secret_key=REDACTED'
-var 'aws_region=us-east-1'
-var 'subnet_id=REDACTED'
ami.json