Packer.io For Building AMI

[cancan101]

https://packer.io/ offers a way of scripting up AMI creation.
See for example: https://github.com/awslabs/cfncluster-cookbook/blob/develop/build_ami.sh

[ogrisel]

Thanks @cancan101. Please feel free to submit a PR if you wish to turn our scripts into something that can be used with packer to make it possible to re-generate the AMI from the command line.

[ogrisel]

Note that CUDA imposes a reboot in the middle of the image creation process. I am not sure how if this constraint will work well with packer...

[cancan101]

1. packer.io supports reboots. See: Handling Reboots.
2. I think the reboot in the script is at the very end of the CUDA / Nvidia build. Theoretically you could break this into to AMI builds any ways. One for the CUDA + Nvidia part and one for the DL part.