packer-post-processor-amazon-ami-management

Packer post-processor plugin for AMI management

Description

This post-processor cleanups old AMIs and EBS snapshots using amazon-ebs builder's access configuration after baking a new AMI.

Installation

Packer supports plugin system. Please read the following documentation:

https://www.packer.io/docs/extend/plugins.html

You can download binary built for your architecture from latest releases.

For example, to install v0.7.0 for 64bit OSX

For Linux based OS, you can use the install_linux.sh to automate the installation process

mkdir -p ~/.packer.d/plugins
wget https:/wata727/packer-post-processor-amazon-ami-management/releases/download/v0.6.2/packer-post-processor-amazon-ami-management_0.7.0_darwin_amd64.zip -P /tmp/
cd ~/.packer.d/plugins
unzip -j /tmp/packer-post-processor-amazon-ami-management_0.7.0_darwin_amd64.zip -d ~/.packer.d/plugins

Usage

The following example is a template to keep only the latest 3 AMIs.

{
  "builders": [{
    "type": "amazon-ebs",
    "region": "us-east-1",
    "source_ami": "ami-6869aa05",
    "instance_type": "t2.micro",
    "ssh_username": "ec2-user",
    "ssh_pty": "true",
    "ami_name": "packer-example {{timestamp}}",
    "tags": {
        "Amazon_AMI_Management_Identifier": "packer-example"
    }
  }],
  "provisioners":[{
    "type": "shell",
    "inline": [
      "echo 'running...'"
    ]
  }],
  "post-processors":[{
    "type": "amazon-ami-management",
    "regions": ["us-east-1"],
    "identifier": "packer-example",
    "keep_releases": "3"
  }]
}

Configuration

Type: amazon-ami-management

Required:

• identifier (string) - An identifier of AMIs. This plugin looks Amazon_AMI_Management_Identifier tag. If identifier matches tag value, these AMI becomes to management target.
• keep_releases (integer) - The number of AMIs. This value is invalid when keep_days is set.
• keep_days (integer) - The number of days to keep AMIs. For example, if you specify 10, AMIs created before 10 days will be deleted. This value is invalid when keep_releases is set.
• regions (array of strings) - A list of regions, such as us-east-1 in which to manage AMIs. NOTE: Before v0.3.0, this parameter was region. Since 0.4.0, region is not used.

Optional:

• dry_run (boolean) - If true, the post-processor doesn't actually delete AMIs.

The following attibutes are also available. These are optional and used in the same way as AWS Builder:

• access_key
• secret_key
• profile
• token
• mfa_code
• custom_endpoint_ec2
• skip_region_validation
• skip_metadata_api_check

IAM Task or Instance Role

The post-processor requires additional permissions to work. Below is the difference from the minimum permissions required by Packer.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [{
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action" : [
+       "autoscaling:DescribeLaunchConfigurations",
        "ec2:AttachVolume",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
        "ec2:CopyImage",
        "ec2:CreateImage",
        "ec2:CreateKeypair",
        "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup",
        "ec2:CreateSnapshot",
        "ec2:CreateTags",
        "ec2:CreateVolume",
        "ec2:DeleteKeyPair",
        "ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup",
        "ec2:DeleteSnapshot",
        "ec2:DeleteVolume",
        "ec2:DeregisterImage",
        "ec2:DescribeImageAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeImages",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus",
+       "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplates",
+       "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplateVersions",
        "ec2:DescribeRegions",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSnapshots",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeTags",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
        "ec2:DetachVolume",
        "ec2:GetPasswordData",
        "ec2:ModifyImageAttribute",
        "ec2:ModifyInstanceAttribute",
        "ec2:ModifySnapshotAttribute",
        "ec2:RegisterImage",
        "ec2:RunInstances",
        "ec2:StopInstances",
        "ec2:TerminateInstances"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
  }]
}

Developing Plugin

If you wish to build this plugin on your environment, you can use GNU Make build system. But this Makefile depends on Go 1.12 or more. At First, you should install Go.

$ GO111MODULE=on make build

License