sudo su cd sudo yum update -y sudo wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/packer/0.8.6/packer_0.8.6_linux_amd64.zip sudo unzip packer_0.8.6_linux_amd64.zip packer -v

aws s3api create-bucket --bucket (buckername) --region eu-west-1 --create-bucket-configuration LocationConstraint=eu-west-1

packer_out=$(packer build buildAMIUsingPacker.json | tee /dev/tty)

ami_id=$(echo "$packer_out" | tail -c 30 | perl -n -e'/: (ami-.+)$/ && print $1')

echo 'variable "ami" { default = "'${ami_id}'" }' > amivar_web.tf

aws s3 cp amivar_web.tf s3://(CreatedBucketName)/amivar_web.tf cd tfrepo aws s3 cp s3:///amivar_web.tf amivar_web.tf terraform init terraform apply -input=false -auto-approve