Packer: Share the images to other accounts

[ozbillwang]

Hi

I am looking for an easy way to share the new ami image to other accounts.

I can use the template to generate an AWS AMI image, but I have to manually share it to other consolidated accounts every time.

Is the feature exist in packer?

[ozbillwang]

Seems this will be a new feature for builders of aws. Not sure if this will be same request for other cloud builders.

I did some research and hope to add a new feature after image is generated. Related aws cli command is:

aws ec2 modify-image-attribute --image-id ami-2bb65342 --launch-permission "{\"Add\":[{\"UserId\":\"123456789012\"}]}"

So I need a post-processors to share the images (assume the format as below)

  "post-processors": [
    {
      "type": "sharing",
      "account": ["123456789012", "210987654321"],
    }
  ],

I am not Golang developer, but seems to use Step_register_ami.go as start:

https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/blob/master/builder/amazon/instance/step_register_ami.go

[ozbillwang]

find this code, but don't know how to use it to change LaunchPermission

https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/blob/master/builder/amazon/common/step_modify_ami_attributes.go#L70

[ozbillwang]

looks I am closed to the feature:

https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues/479

https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/amazon-ebs.html#ami_users

ami_users (array of strings) - A list of account IDs that have access to launch the resulting AMI(s). By default no additional users other than the user creating the AMI has permissions to launch it.

[ozbillwang]

ticket can be closed now. I did it with ami_users.

[afaleti]

Nice!

[atrakic]

ami_users cannot be used with encrypt_boot

[WeekendsBull]

@atrakic would you be able to use something else rather than ami_users?

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