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

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