// Required Blocks to create a Golden Image with Packer
packer {
  ...
}
  
 source {
   ...
 }
 
 build {
   ...
 }

// Required Blocks to create a Golden Image with Packer
packer {
  //configure some behaviors of Packer, plugins
  //ensure that everyone is using a specific Packer version
  ...
}
  
 source {
   ...
 }
 
 build {
   ...
 }

// Required Blocks to create a Golden Image with Packer
packer {
  required_plugins {
    amazon = {
      version = ">= 1.2.5 "
      source  = "github.com/hashicorp/amazon"
    }
  }
}
  
 source {
   ...
 }
 
 build {
   ...
 }

// Required Blocks to create a Golden Image with Packer
packer {
  required_plugins {
    amazon = {
      version = ">= 1.2.5 "
      source  = "github.com/hashicorp/amazon"
    }
    digitalocean = {
      version = ">= 1.0.4"
      source  = "github.com/digitalocean/digitalocean"
    }
  }
}

// Required Blocks to create a Golden Image with Packer
packer {
  //configure some behaviors of Packer
  //ensure that everyone is using a specific Packer version
  ...
}
  
 source {
   //What is going to be our source, base image, vhd file
   //ami id and so on..
   ...
 }
 
 build {
   ...
 }

// Required Blocks to create a Golden Image with Packer
  
 source "amazon-ebs" "this" {
  profile = "profile"

  region  = "us-east-1"
  ami_name = "ami-name"
  ami_description = "AMI-Description"
  
  source_ami_filter {
    filters = {
       virtualization-type = "hvm"
       name = "ubuntu/images/ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-*"
       root-device-type = "ebs"
    }

    owners = ["099720109477"]
    most_recent = true
  }
  instance_type = "t2.micro"
  ssh_username = "ubuntu"
 }
 

// Required Blocks to create a Golden Image with Packer
 
 build {
   //Build configurations
   //shell scripts
   //Config management Cheff, Puppet, Ansible
   //Copy of files
   //set custom configurations
   ...
 }

// Required Blocks to create a Golden Image with Packer
 
 build {
  sources = [ "source.amazon-ebs.this"]
  
  provisioner "shell" {
    script = "./provisioner.sh"
  }
}

// Required Blocks to create a Golden Image with Packer
 
 build {
  sources = [ "source.amazon-ebs.this"]
  
  provisioner "shell" {
    script = "./provisioner.sh"
  }
   
  provisioner "file" {
    source = "app.tar.gz"
    destination = "/tmp/app.tar.gz"
  }

  provisioner "shell-local" {
    inline = ["echo foo"]
  }
}

// Required Blocks to create a Golden Image with Packer
 
 build {
  sources = [ "source.amazon-ebs.this"]
  
  provisioner "ansible" {
      playbook_file = "./playbook.yml"
  }
   
  provisioner "file" {
    source = "app.tar.gz"
    destination = "/tmp/app.tar.gz"
  }

  provisioner "shell-local" {
    inline = ["echo foo"]
  }
}