Gitlab Runner AMI

Packer

Builds and configures an AMI with:

Infra

• Updates to latest packages and enables auto update of security packages
• firewall allowing only ssh incoming

Tools

• docker
• kubectl
• aws cli
• gitlab runner
• jq
• docker cleanup jobs

Initialisation

• Gitlab runner configuration
• Kubectl configuration setup

See Packer Readme for more details

Terraform

A sample terraform project to show how to deploy the AMI into AWS.

See Terraform Readme for more details

Requirements

• a AWS account (Be careful this template implies creating billable resources on AWS cloud) You will need an AWS access key and enough admin permissions to create AWS ressources
• a SSH Key pair to connect to Gitlab and AWS instances (see Github help for examples)
• Packer >= 1.1.3
• Terraform >= v0.11.2

Usage

1. Build the iamge cd packer; packer build -var 'aws_region=us-east-1' template.json. See Packer Readme for more details
2. Create kube-config file which contains configuration to access your cluster.
3. Run terrafrom init; terraform apply, set variables, review changes and confirm by typing yes. See Terraform Readme for more details