Part 1 - Jenkins AMI

The AMI is a supported and maintained Ubuntu 20.04 image for use on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). It is designed to provide a stable, secure, and high performance execution environment for applications running on Amazon EC2.

Installation

Use the Hashicorp Packer Image to build the AMI. Also built by Github actions on push to the repository. Additionally, securly install aws cli once the EC2 instance for the Jenkins is running.

hashicorp/packer

Setup

{
    "aws_region": "",
    "aws_access_key": "",
    "aws_secret_key": "",
    "source_ami": "",
    "ssh_username": "",
    "ami_users": ""
}

Usage

packer validate -var-file=./vars-local.json ubuntu-ami.json
packer build -var-file=./vars-local.json ubuntu-ami.json