Packer R-Studio Workbench AWS AMI

This project includes scripts to build an R-Studio Workbench AMI for AWS.

What's in:

• Packer HCL config for building the image on AWS,
• Ansible roles for provisioning essentials, R, R-Studio Workbench,
• Vagrant config for building and testing the image build process locally.

Requirements

You'll require the following tools installed and in your path:

• packer
• ansible
• awscli
• aws-vault

Building the image

1. Make sure all the required software (listed above) is installed,
2. Load your AWS credentials into your environment.
3. Run packer:

aws-vault exec appsilon-infra-sso -- packer build ami.pkr.hcl