No it's not, and if you really want test the build you have to launch an instance and test on that. It's easy to wrap the packer build with some clean up script. It's not the creation of the AMI's that costs, it's keeping them.
If you still don't want to create an AMI I recommend that you as the last step creates a file with shell-local and then exits with an error. If that file exists the build was successful otherwise not. On Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 06:47 <[email protected] wrote: > 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 > > > > > -- > 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/093bc189-a14c-49ba-b7cd-ad77a362dc74%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/093bc189-a14c-49ba-b7cd-ad77a362dc74%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-8DEdyFgwJj3dwOm%3Dxwpm5ZXiYd8djQHsXw3T%2Byfo%3D0A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
