Usable for creating AWS AMIs?

[alexveecle]

Hi,

I'm working on running some software in AWS EC2. This software is best supported on Ubuntu. I was thinking that maybe bootc would be a pleasant way to build an AMI with the software backed in.

I have some questions:

• If I extend the ubuntu-bootc:latest image, apt is not operational. If I want to install some extra packages using apt, am I supposed to copy the Containerfile and add installation steps in a middle step or something? Anyone have an example that shows how the recommended way to do these things?

• Is there anything needed for EC2 integration other than using the AMI builder? I want to do some provisioning on boot, so I'm thinking of following this example that adds cloud-init anyway.

Any other advice or recommendation? In general I dislike existing workflows for building images, so I'm hoping bootc helps- but if it's still in an early stage, I'm good with more traditional methods.

Cheers,

Álex