A Golden AMI Pipeline that Rebuilds on a Schedule, Tests and Scans
A pipeline with no schedule builds when somebody clicks, so the golden image ages until a person remembers it; image tests are the switch turned off to save an hour and scanning is off unless enabled; and the build instance's metadata service can hand its credentials to whatever a step downloads. Weekly rebuilds when a dependency changed, tests and scanning on, IMDSv2-only builds.
Verification
Static-verifiedPassed: validated and lint-clean (provider-schema-validated for AWS/Azure/GCP; Terraform-language lint elsewhere).
Conformance
- Static validation (fmt · validate · tflint)
- Security scan clean (Checkov)
- Plan tests (mocked: validation rules · outputs)
Provenance
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Functional
- Live test pending (no cloud run yet)
Last verified 2026-09-14 · how we verify
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terraform · opentofumodule "image_builder" {
source = "www.iac-bazaar.com/iac-bazaar/aws-image-builder/aws"
version = "1.0.0"
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Terraform module 1.0.0, static-verified on IaC Bazaar: [A Golden AMI Pipeline that Rebuilds on a Schedule, Tests and Scans](https://www.iac-bazaar.com/catalog/aws-image-builder?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=artifact)
```hcl
module "image_builder" {
source = "www.iac-bazaar.com/iac-bazaar/aws-image-builder/aws"
version = "1.0.0"
}
```Preview:
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Documentation
aws-image-builder
An EC2 Image Builder pipeline that rebuilds a golden AMI on a schedule,
tests it, scans it, and builds on an instance that cannot leak its
credentials. Works with Terraform and OpenTofu (>= 1.6), aws
provider >= 6.0, < 7.0.
A pipeline with no schedule builds when somebody clicks. Weekly here, only when a dependency changed.
Tests and scanning are separate switches, both on.
The build instance is IMDSv2-only and terminated on failure.
The AMI uses the default EBS key unless kms_key_arn.
Verification
Static validation runs tofu fmt, init, validate, tflint and checkov.
This module has not yet had a live test, so it is published as statically
validated with its live test pending and does not carry the live-tested mark.
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