Custom Provisioning for AMIs

[Erez Rabih]

Hi all,

Is there a way to perform custom provisioning on a base AMI using Aminator?

I am asking this since the docs say that Aminator uses a deb or rpm package in order to provision the AMI. Didn't see any mentions to other possibilities in this area.

Are there any?

Thanks in advance.

[Michael Tripoli]

Yes, there are other provisioner plugins available under the aminator-plugins Github org. The aminator-plugin command can help you find and install plugins from that org.

$ aminator-plugin -h

usage: aminator-plugin [-h] [--branch branch] [--type plugin-type]

                       command [name]

Aminator plugin install utility

positional arguments:

  command             Command to run. Valid commands: search install list

  name                Name of the plugin

optional arguments:

  -h, --help          show this help message and exit

  --branch branch     Which branch to pull the plugin list from. Valid

                      options: production, testing, alpha. Default value:

                      production

  --type plugin-type  The type of plugin to search for. Valid options: cloud,

                      volume, blockdevice, provision, distro, finalizer,

                      metrics

$ sudo aminator-plugin list

Name:        chef

Aliases:     chefsolo, chef-solo

Type:        provision

Description: This plugin allows you to use chef-solo to bake AMIs

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Name:        euca

Aliases:     eucalyptus, eucalyptus-cloud

Type:        cloud

Description: Eucalyptus cloud plugin for NetflixOSS Aminator

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Name:        ansible

Aliases:

Type:        provision

Description: This Aminator plugin allows you to provision an AMI using an Ansible playbook.

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Name:        puppet

Aliases:

Type:        provision

Description: This Aminator plugin allows you to provision an AMI using Puppet

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[Brian Moyles]

I can't remember exactly, but didn't someone put together a provisioner that could provision with an arbitrary shell script too?

[Erez Rabih]

Thanks for your reply.

From a brief look on aminator-plugins (especially the chef one) it looks like it isn't well maintained/documented but I will definitely check this out.

If anyone knows other resources for custom provisioning I will be glad to hear about them.