• Explore the Packer for Packer CLI >= v1.8.0+

Add your AWS credentials as two environment variables, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, replacing AAAAAA with each respective values.

$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AAAAAA
$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=AAAAA

Build basic eks image with packer hashicorp

Install project dependencies

packer init .

The packer fmt command updates templates in the current directory for readability and consistency.

packer fmt .

You can also make sure your configuration is syntactically valid and internally consistent by using the packer validate command.

packer validate .

Build the image with the packer build command.

packer build .