INF-tf-amicopy

Terraform module for cloning the current aws AMI every EC2 machine is built on top of that ami, so every machine has the same base image

This project is internal open source and currently maintained by the INF.

Requirements

The following requirements are needed by this module:

• terraform (>= 0.12)

Providers

The following providers are used by this module:

• aws

Required Inputs

The following input variables are required:

environment

Description: the environment this ami is copied to (e.g. 'testing')

Type: string

name

Description: the ami name to copy, special characters like '*' are allowed

Type: string

Optional Inputs

The following input variables are optional (have default values):

tags

Description: common tags to add to the ressources

Type: map(string)

Default: {}

Outputs

The following outputs are exported:

id

Description: the ami id, from the ami which is created within the account and the current region

Usage

To copy the generic Amazon Linux image:

module "amazon_linux" {
  name        = "amzn2-ami-hvm-*-x86_64-gp2"
  tags        = local.common_tags
  environment = var.environment
  source      = "github.com/ryte/INF-tf-amicopy.git?ref=v0.2.1"
}

or the ecs optimized version

module "ecs_optimized" {
  name        = "amzn-ami-*.f-amazon-ecs-optimized"
  tags        = local.common_tags
  environment = var.environment
  source      = "github.com/ryte/INF-tf-amicopy.git?ref=v0.2.1"
}

Authors

• Armin Grodon
• Markus Schmid

Changelog

• 0.2.1 - Add variable environment instead of reading from tags
• 0.2.0 - Upgrade to terraform 0.12.x
• 0.1.0 - Initial release.

License

This software is released under the MIT License (see LICENSE).