Amazon Linux 2023

Template variables

Variable	Description
`ami_component_description`
`ami_description`
`ami_name`
`ami_regions`
`ami_users`
`arch`
`associate_public_ip_address`
`aws_access_key_id`
`aws_region`
`aws_secret_access_key`
`aws_session_token`
`binary_bucket_name`
`binary_bucket_region`
`containerd_version`
`creator`
`enable_accelerator`	Vendor that provides the GPU or accelerator hardware. Currently we support Neuron and NVIDIA.
`enable_efa`	Valid options are `true` or `false`. Wheather or not to install the software needed to use AWS Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) network interfaces.
`enable_fips`	Install openssl and enable fips related kernel parameters
`encrypted`
`iam_instance_profile`	The name of an IAM instance profile to launch the EC2 instance with.
`instance_type`
`kms_key_id`
`kubernetes_build_date`
`kubernetes_version`
`launch_block_device_mappings_volume_size`
`nodeadm_build_image`	Image to use as a build environment for nodeadm
`nvidia_driver_major_version`	To be used only when `enable_accelerator = nvidia`. Driver version to install, depends on what is available in NVIDIA repository.
`pause_container_image`	Image ref for the pause container image
`remote_folder`	Directory path for shell provisioner scripts on the builder instance
`runc_version`
`security_group_id`
`source_ami_filter_name`
`source_ami_id`
`source_ami_owners`
`ssh_interface`	If using `session_manager`, you need to specify a non-minimal ami as the minimal version does not have the SSM agent installed.
`ssh_username`
`ssm_agent_version`	Version of the SSM agent to install from the S3 bucket provided by the SSM agent project, such as `latest`. If empty, the latest version of the SSM agent available in the Amazon Linux core repositories will be installed.
`subnet_id`
`temporary_key_pair_type`
`temporary_security_group_source_cidrs`
`user_data_file`	Path to a file that will be used for the user data when launching the instance.
`volume_type`
`working_dir`	Directory path for ephemeral resources on the builder instance

Accelerated images

One can build images that contain Neuron or Nvidia drivers and runtime configuration. To build Neuron image execute:

make k8s=1.29 os_distro=al2023 enable_accelerator=neuron enable_efa=true

To build NVIDIA image execute:

make k8s=1.29 os_distro=al2023 enable_accelerator=nvidia enable_efa=true

One can pass the NVIDIA driver major version using the following:

make k8s=1.29 os_distro=al2023 enable_accelerator=nvidia enable_efa=true nvidia_driver_major_version=560

To see which driver versions are available, one can check the NVIDIA AL2023 repository.

Pause Container Image

Since PR #2000, the pause container image is no longer pulled in at runtime on AL2023. nodeadm uses a static pause container reference to populate the sandbox_image field of the containerd config.toml, which is baked into the AMI during the build based on the packer template variable pause_container_image.

The default for pause_container_image points to an EKS-owned ECR image, but you can also use another pause image entirely such as registry.k8s.io/pause.

If you need coordinates for a different ECR image in another region, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/add-ons-images.html for a list of region-specific registries that hold identical repositories.

Additionally, if you would like to use a FIPS endpoint, this will require just a minor change to the registry URI:

-<ACCOUNT_ID>.dkr.ecr.<REGION>.<DOMAIN>"
+<ACCOUNT_ID>.dkr.ecr-fips.<REGION>.<DOMAIN>"