AMI Backing: Using Ansible to Provision with Packer
Immutable Infrastructure in on the heart of DevOps. Today Backing is a very popular idea. AWS allow you to create AMI (AMI is amazon specific image is kinda of a ISO on the OS) this image can be backed in a automated fashion. To perform this task we can use Packer but Packer will take care on the AMI and publishing to AWS but you still need to install things on this linux image lets say Ubuntu or CentOS for instance. For provision you can use Ansible . In this post i will show how to install Ansible, Packer and build an AMI image with Packer and have the full provisioning using Ansible.