Purpose
This Packer AMI Builder creates a new AMI out of the latest Amazon Windows 2016 AMI, and also provides a cloudformation template that leverages AWS CodePipeline to orchestrate the entire process.
Source code structure
├── buildspec.yml <-- CodeBuild spec
├── cloudformation
│ └── pipeline.yaml <-- Cloudformation to create entire pipeline
│ └── CodeBuild_VPC.yml <--- VPC for codebuild CFN template, if you dont alreayd have one.
├── packer_WinServer.json <-- Packer template for Pipeline
├── user_data.ps1 <-- Powershell userdata
├── bootstrap.ps1 <-- Powershell needed for WinRM bootstrapCloudformation template
Cloudformation will create the following resources as part of the AMI Builder for Packer:
cloudformation/pipeline.yaml- GitHub - Git repository
- AWS CodeBuild - Downloads Packer and run Packer to build AMI
- AWS CodePipeline - Orchestrates pipeline and listen for new commits in CodeCommit
- Amazon SNS Topic - AMI Builds Notification via subscribed email
- Amazon Cloudwatch Events Rule - Custom Event for AMI Builder that will trigger SNS upon AMI completion
HOWTO
Before you start
- Install GIT if you don't have it
- Make sure AWS CLI is configured properly
- Configured AWS CLI and Git to connect to AWS CodeCommit repositories
Launch the Cloudformation stack
| Region | AMI Builder Launch Template |
|---|---|
| Sydney (ap-southeast-2) |  |