We build our images once (with CI) and then promote them with tags and copying them to different regions. We only use Packer for creating the image in the staging env, the promotion is completely handled by python/boto3 scripts since it's lifecycle management.
On 30 March 2018 at 12:07, 'Sean O'Reilly' via Packer < [email protected]> wrote: > Why only if in same account and region? We can share AMIs across different > accounts. What pattern would you use in same account? > > Regards > > Sean > > On Friday, 30 March 2018 10:25:49 UTC+1, Sean O'Reilly wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I am looking for a little advice or to start a discussion around how >> other people are managing immutable servers using packer. >> >> I would like to build an AMI once using packer and then promote that same >> image through dev/test/preprod/prod. I would be interested to hear if >> anyone else is doing this and what strategies they are using to move the >> AMI between the environments and how they are marking the images as >> releasable. >> >> Is there a well known pattern I should be following or some best practice? >> >> Regards >> >> Sean >> > -- > 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/5d00c6d5-c89e-4d6b-b6e9-d0b2b3f5d642%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/5d00c6d5-c89e-4d6b-b6e9-d0b2b3f5d642%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_As3xNaJBK1ZY44FSWR0i%2BJrC0gWjqTKXUSiNt5ess1A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
