Packer

This packer file will build an Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS AWS AMI with the following installed:

• Nginx
• Node 14.x
  • pm2

Setup

Build the AMI:

packer build .

...
Build 'amazon-ebs.webserver' finished after 3 minutes 49 seconds.

==> Wait completed after 3 minutes 49 seconds

==> Builds finished. The artifacts of successful builds are:
--> amazon-ebs.webserver: AMIs were created:
eu-west-1: ami-0cabd94003825d35d

Copy this AMI id we will use it in our terraform template.