{"id":6389,"date":"2019-08-22T10:27:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=6389"},"modified":"2021-11-16T11:01:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T11:01:27","slug":"create-aws-ami-policy-iamggroup-and-iam-user-for-hashicorp-packer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/create-aws-ami-policy-iamggroup-and-iam-user-for-hashicorp-packer\/","title":{"rendered":"Create AWS AMI policy, IAMgGroup and IAM user for Hashicorp Packer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 1  &#8211; Create an IAM User named &#8220;packer_user&#8221; in AWS .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 2  &#8211; Create a custom inline Policy named &#8220;packer_ami_policy&#8221; as shown<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-1\" data-shcb-language-name=\"JSON \/ JSON with Comments\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"json\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-json\">{ \n      <span class=\"hljs-attr\">\"Version\"<\/span>: <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"2012-10-17\"<\/span>, \n      <span class=\"hljs-attr\">\"Statement\"<\/span>: &#91; 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