This repository is now deprecated. The Guardian now builds AMIs via AMIgo. This is only kept for reference.

This repo contains build scripts for base AMIs that get an Ubuntu AMI to a point where it is easy to use to deploy an application.

AMI building is done using Packer. The packer config files are in packer/ and provisioning scripts are kept in packer/resources/.

All AMIs produced by scripts in this repo should have:

• LaunchPermission for all AWS accounts that Prism is aware of
• a useful set of tags that allows image users to identify the source of the image

For example - the initial base-ubuntu image has the following tags:

• Name: Unique name of the image
• BuildName: The CI build name (currently in TeamCity)
• Build: The build ID from the CI server
• Branch: The source control branch
• VCSRef: The source control commit reference
• SourceAMI: The AMI that packer started from

If an image was not built in a CI environment then one or more of the above fields will be set to DEV. Never use an AMI marked DEV as they maybe deleted at any point without checking if anyone is using it..

To build locally:

• Either run setup.sh (which will download packer) or set the PACKER_HOME environment variable to the location of your packer binaries.
• Amazon credentials, either
• access and secret keys in the AWS_ACCESS_KEY and AWS_SECRET_KEY respectively
• keys in the ~/.aws/credentials file with AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE set if required

Run the build.sh in the root of the repository. When not running in development mode it will step through the process of image creation.

Each image contains a number of optional features. See the features README for more details.

• Investigate using packers chroot builder to accelerate the build process
• Make it create PV AMIs if that's desirable