Jenkins server AMI builder

This repo is a template to build an AWS Ubuntu AMI using Packer, with Ansible used to provision Jenkins.

Requirements

• Ansible and Packer both need to be installed on your local machine.
• An AWS account with an Access Key for your user. Instructions here.
• A way to authenticate with AWS when running the Packer script, see here. I prefer to use the shared credentials file method.

Usage

To create the AMI:

1. Install the required Ansible-Galaxy roles:

   ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

2. Run the Packer script:

   packer build jenkins.json

Credits

Big thanks to Jeff Geerling for providing lots of awesome Ansible scripts. I used his Jenkins role for this project.