November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
298 pages
7h 10m
English
Unlike selecting the base Docker image to extend that we covered in earlier chapters, choosing the correct AMI to use Packer on is sadly not a simple task. Some distributions are regularly updated, so the IDs change. The IDs are also unique per AWS region and you may want hardware or paravirtualization (HVM vs PV). On top of all this, you also have to chose the right one for your storage needs (instance-store, ebs, and ebs-ssd at the time of writing this book), creating an absolutely un-intuitive matrix of options.
If you have not worked with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and EBS, the storage options are a bit confusing to newcomers but they mean the following:
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