AWS AMI build config for Packer. Install NodeJS using NVM and the latest version of NPM.

nodejs-ami.json

{
  "variables": {
    "aws_access_key": "",
    "aws_secret_key": ""
  },
  "builders": [{
    "type": "amazon-ebs",
    "access_key": "{{user `aws_access_key`}}",
    "secret_key": "{{user `aws_secret_key`}}",
    "region": "ap-southeast-1",
    "source_ami_filter": {
      "filters": {
        "virtualization-type": "hvm",
        "image-id": "ami-fc5ae39f"
      },
      "owners": ["137112412989"],
      "most_recent": true
    },
    "instance_type": "t2.micro",
    "ssh_username": "ec2-user",
    "ami_name": "nodejs-machine-{{timestamp}}",
    "tags": {
      "name": "nodejs-image"
    }
  }],
  "provisioners": [{
    "type": "shell",
    "inline": [
      "sleep 30",
      "sudo yum update -y",
      "sudo yum install git make gcc -y",
      "curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.2/install.sh | bash",
      "source ~/.bashrc",
      "nvm install 8",
      "npm install -g npm@latest"
    ]
  }]
}