A snapshot (AMI) is much more predictable than launching an EC2 with a gigantic user-script that installs a big system. The draw back is that you have to re-spin the image regularly to update. I immutable servers have the same pros and cons regardless if they are the core of your infrastructure management or the business application.
On 16 October 2017 at 11:55, antgel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, Packer newbie here. > > Those of you following the Terraform and Puppet MLs may have come across > my posts (1 > <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/terraform-tool/sZ-oNXN8WHA/discussion> > , 2 > <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/puppet-users/TcXeCTA9Yjc/discussion>) > about whether I should have master Puppet / Jenkins environment that handle > configuration and deployment across all AWS VPCs (environments), or a > Puppet / Jenkins instance per VPC. > > Packer came up as part of these threads, and I have a question. Is there > any point in using Packer for initial images for Puppet / Jenkins servers? > Currently, my plan is to bring up Puppet masters via AWS userdata, and > bring up Jenkins masters via terraform. I see Packer as having more of a > use case for spinning up application servers, but is it also useful / > recommended in the initial bootstrapping of the infrastructure? > > -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in > violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing > list. > > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues > IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Packer" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/packer-tool/9eb10f44-262e-4f74-a1a2-2fb9fc1e264e%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/9eb10f44-262e-4f74-a1a2-2fb9fc1e264e%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CALz9Rt-BFsVk-EZ_uyyDsMcoO30crw_7qfM0OJgVM8RiRkztVw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
