Hi All,

My use case is we bake an AMI only a couple of times a month. 
While baking we install a whole lot of system level packages/python 
packages etc ... and goes on.

Since we depend on a lot of open source packages, due to some issues like 
mirrors down/required version of package not available/package has updated 
version, some dependencies will break and thus ami creation fails.  

This slows down our release process. Tto resolve this we just want to un 
the baking process and install all dependencies on an ec2 machine and 
verify nothing is breaking.
We want to do this daily as a CI process without creating an ami.  As 
creating ami 's daily sums up to a huge cost on aws.

so is there a way I can run packer and install all dependencies but without 
creating an AMI?

I googled a bit and got to know that a similar request was made by several 
people to have skip-ami option, but it was not approved and the feature is 
still not available.

https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/4681
https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/4901
https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/3793
https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/1896

Just want to know if there is any option available to skip ami creation or 
is there any other way  that i can try to skip ami creation.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Raj




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