AWS

Describe in high-level the process of creating AMIs

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

  1. Start an EC2 instance
  2. Customized the EC2 instance (install packages, change OS configuration, etc.)
  3. Stop the instance (for avoiding data integrity issues)
  4. Create EBS snapshot and build an AMI
  5. To verify and test the AMI, launch an instance from the AMI