jambonz-feature-server

A packer template to build an AMI for the jambonz feature server. The base linux distro is Debian 10 (buster).

Installing

To build a debian 11 AMI (preferred):

$  packer build -color=false template.json

To build an RHEL-9 AMI:

packer build -color=false -var "redhat_username=<my-rh-username>" -var "redhat_password=<my-rh-password>" template-rhel.json

To build an RHEL-8 AMI:

packer build -color=false-var "redhat_username=<my-rh-username>" -var "redhat_password=<my-rh-password>" \
-var "distro=rhel-8" -var "rhel_major_release_number=8"  template-rhel.json```

To build an arm64 image:

$ packer build -color=false
--var="ami_base_image_arch=arm64"
--var="instance_type=t4g.xlarge"
template.json


### variables
There are many variables that can be specified on the `packer build` command line; however defaults (which are shown below) are appropriate for building an "all in one" jambonz server, so you generally should not need to specify values.

"region": "us-east-1"

The region to create the AMI in

"ami_description": "jambonz feature server"

AMI description.

"instance_type": "t2.medium"

EC2 Instance type to use when building the AMI.

"drachtio_version": "v0.8.4"

drachtio tag or branch to build

"install_datadog": "no",

whether to install datadog (commercial) monitoring agent

"install_telegraf": "yes",

whether to install telegraf (open source) monitoring agent