Chapter 6, Building Custom ECS Container Instances

1. The variables section.
2. True.
3. JSON.
4. False – you can (and should) reference environment variable values for your AWS credentials.
5. False – you can use the manifest post processor (https://www.packer.io/docs/post-processors/manifest.html) to capture the AMI ID.
6. By default, an 8 GB operating system partition and a 22 GB device-mapper logical volume is created.
7. File provisioner.
8. The cloud init startup script may be attempting to run package updates on the EC2 instance.  This will fail after a lengthy timeout if there is no public internet connectivity.