Packer + Inspec

Packer workflow integrating Inspec testing

About

This work is is test bed to improve our Amazon Linux AMI build workflow

Usage

Example usage: Validate Template make validate SUBNETID=subnet-123456ab

Build AMI make build-ami SUBNETID=subnet-123456ab

Validate & Build make all SUBNETID=subnet-123456ab

Cleanup make clean

Notes

ssh_private_key_file does not appear to work as documented hence it need's to be used with ssh_keypair_name and the key-pair needs to be present on AWS.

Requires

• Packer
• Inspec
• Generation of ssh key file as ssh_key_packer
• Import of key-pair to AWS as name packer-insepc