Terraform 08 - Packer + Terraform

In this session, I'm gonna demo how do Packer and Terraform work together to practice infrastructure as code.
Timestamp:
00:00 - Intro about Packer
07:36 - Install Packer CLI
09:44 - Packer Template
19:03 - Demo Packer+Terraform
Example Packer Template:
{
"variables": {
"aws_access_key": "xxx",
"aws_secret_key": "xxx"
},
"builders": [{
"type": "amazon-ebs",
"access_key": "{{user `aws_access_key`}}",
"secret_key": "{{user `aws_secret_key`}}",
"region": "us-east-2",
"source_ami_filter": {
"filters": {
"virtualization-type": "hvm",
"name": "ubuntu/images/*ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-*",
"root-device-type": "ebs"
},
"owners": [
"099720109477"
],
"most_recent": true
},
"instance_type": "t2.micro",
"ssh_username": "ubuntu",
"ami_name": "custom-packer-{{timestamp}}"
}],
"provisioners": [{
"type": "shell",
"script": "./installSoftware.sh",
"execute_command": "{{ .Vars }} sudo -E sh '{{ .Path }}'",
"pause_before": "10s"
}]
}
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