This tutorails helps you to create a AWS AMI policy, IAMgGroup and IAM user for Hashicorp Packer execution so Packer should get only needed access than all.
Step 1 – Create an IAM User named “packer_user” in AWS .
Step 2 – Create a custom inline Policy named “packer_ami_policy” as shown
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"ec2:AttachVolume",
"ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
"ec2:CopyImage",
"ec2:CreateImage",
"ec2:CreateKeypair",
"ec2:CreateSecurityGroup",
"ec2:CreateSnapshot",
"ec2:CreateTags",
"ec2:CreateVolume",
"ec2:DeleteKeypair",
"ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup",
"ec2:DeleteSnapshot",
"ec2:DeleteVolume",
"ec2:DeregisterImage",
"ec2:DescribeImageAttribute",
"ec2:DescribeImages",
"ec2:DescribeInstances",
"ec2:DescribeRegions",
"ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
"ec2:DescribeSnapshots",
"ec2:DescribeSubnets",
"ec2:DescribeTags",
"ec2:DescribeVolumes",
"ec2:DetachVolume",
"ec2:GetPasswordData",
"ec2:ModifyImageAttribute",
"ec2:ModifyInstanceAttribute",
"ec2:ModifySnapshotAttribute",
"ec2:RegisterImage",
"ec2:RunInstances",
"ec2:StopInstances",
"ec2:TerminateInstances"
],
"Resource": "*"
}
]
}
Step 3 – Attach the created Policy “packer_ami_policy” to user “packer_user”
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