The first packer build command includes passing AWS access key and secret key as variables. On Windows, the single quotes must be replaced with double quotes or an AWS error occurs. This may not be obvious to everyone, hence a note. The AWS error (as below) is not adequately self-explanatory.
Build 'amazon-ebs' errored: Error querying AMI: NoCredentialProviders: no valid providers in chain. Deprecated.
For verbose messaging see aws.Config.CredentialsChainVerboseErrors
The dollar signs do not need to be escaped. The backslashes show up on
the website right now. This commit makes it so that they do not show up
on the website.
In issue #1117, the packer binary can sometimes conflict with the packer binary supplied with cracklib. This documentation update covers this and provides workarounds for affected users.
Updated to same ami as in main readme.md which is from community AMIs
and therefore doesn't require accepting the AWS marketplace terms
before using in Packer build.
This updates the example for adding DigitalOcean
as a provider in the beginning tutorial. It looks
like it hadn't been updated in some time, and
was using old settings. I've updated it and
confirmed it works.