4 Provisioning with Packer
In the last chapter, we created an Amazon AMI from a stock Ubuntu 17.04 base image. It was a pretty boring image though—essentially a clone of that stock image, renamed. To customize our image a bit we’re going to take advantage of a Packer component called a provisioner.
Provisioners execute actions on the image being built. These actions, depending on the provisioner, can run scripts or system commands, and execute third-party tools like configuration management. Provisioners come in a variety of types. You can use one or more types of provisioners during a build—for example, you could use one provisioner to configure and install the requirements for another provisioner.
In this chapter we’ll explore several provisioners, ...
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