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Create an AMI using Packer

What is Packer?

Packer is a tool from Hashicorp that allows you to create machine images in a variety of formats from a single spec file. This can be a very powerful thing when you want to automate the deployment of applications to a variety (or even just more than one, really) platforms.

In our case, we want to deploy an application to VMware and AWS, and soon to Docker. Doing that with a single spec file gives us

• platforms that are consistent, even if they're different

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{
    // The standard ECS options, place in your own values:
    "cluster": "",
    "serviceName": "my-side-car-container",
    "taskDefinition": "",
    "role": "",

    // desireCount should be greater than the number of instances that are in the ECS cluster.
    "desiredCount": 1000,

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