Packer Recipe for a Docker-Capable Amazon EC2 AMI

This is a very minimal AMI that has Docker installed, on Ubuntu (HVM).

It uses the official Ubuntu Docker (lxc-docker) packages.

By default, the AMI is copied to all regions (except China, which is a restricted invite-only region).

Image IDs

Image Name:

• ubuntu-14.04-docker-1.7.1.1

Image ID:

• ap-northeast-1: ami-4e4cc94e
• ap-southeast-1: ami-10eee042
• ap-southeast-2: ami-69216353
• eu-central-1: ami-dcf9fec1
• eu-west-1: ami-aeda86d9
• sa-east-1: ami-8f4cc492
• us-east-1: ami-c1db6caa
• us-west-1: ami-e14ab4a5
• us-west-2: ami-77968347

Install

Manually

This is a Packer template. Install the latest version of Packer, then:

packer build \
  -var docker_version=1.6.0 \
  -var source_ami=ami-xxxyyyzzz \
  -var aws_region=$AWS_REGION \
  -var aws_access_key=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID \
  -var aws_secret_key=$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY \
  packer.json

Via Docker

Export your AWS environment variables, then:

./make.sh

This will chew for a bit and finally output the AMI IDs.