#packer - April 2020

Hi there!
haven't done my research yet, but quite curious about HCL & packer - is it possible to "import modules"? I'll have about 5 AMIs to pack and all JSONs look the same except for 1 parameter.
Anyone have a solution? 🙂

I usually use a Makefile with an environment variable to build AMIs dynamically with packer

make your 1 param an env var in the packer json, and then write a Makefile that sets the var and calls packer once for each value

oh, good idea! you use HCL or JSON for that?

i've only used JSON with packer

haven't had time to try out HCL with packer yet

cool 😎 thanks!

anyone know how to retrieve the source ami date ?

Anyone seen/used https://github.com/wata727/packer-post-processor-amazon-ami-management ?