Create a snapshot after executing a successful amazon-ebsvolume build

[lmay...@lm3corp.com]

I couldn't find information on how to create a snapshot after a newly created ebs volume.

[Rickard von Essen]

You can't. But you can use the manifest post-processor, read it in a script that you run after packer and snapshot each ebs volume with the cli. 

On Tue, May 22, 2018, 16:30 <lmay...@lm3corp.com> wrote:

I couldn't find information on how to create a snapshot after a newly created ebs volume.

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[lmay...@lm3corp.com]

Can you provide an example on how to accomplish this task? 

[Rickard von Essen]

No, sorry I don't have such code lying around. But it should be really easy to parse the manifest file with jq and loop over the volumes and create a snapshot with the cli.

Give it a try and post again if you need help and provide what you got so far. 

Some lonks:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/create-snapshot.html

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

https://www.packer.io/docs/post-processors/manifest.html

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