The code in the repo is meant to create a machine image on AWS and provision the machine using ansible. Packer is used for creating identical machine images on AWS in this case.

• Ansible
• Packer

To run the scripts first create .env fil e, copy the contents of .env.example into .env file, fill in the placeholders in with details from aws account.

• Run source .env to export the variable to the system environment.
• Run packer build packer_frontend.json to build the machine image.
• Once done you should be able to go to your AWS account and create an instance from the image just created by packer.