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Create AMI using packer

 basic parameter

vim moon.json 

{

       "builders": [

           {


           "type": "amazon-ebs",

           "access_key": "AGQ",

           "secret_key": "Kft1aurid",

           "region": "us-east-1",

           "instance_type": "t2.micro",

           "source_ami": "ami-02e136e904f3da870",

           "ssh_username": "ec2-user",

           "ami_name": "moon-amiii"


        }


       ]


}


convert json file into hcl 

packer hcl2 upgrade moon.json

validate code 

packer validate moon.json  

packer validate moon.json.pkr.hcl


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