Step-by-step implementation guide

Purpose

To provide clear guidance on implementing Standard Build Images (SBI) across supported cloud platforms, ensuring consistent security standards and efficient deployment processes.

Environments

• AWS – Available now
• Azure – Coming soon
• GCC+ – Coming soon

Standard Build Image naming standard

Example:

GT_GCCS_StandardBuild_\<OS_System>_\<OS_Version>_\<COTS>_on_\<Date_YYYY-MM-DD>_\<time_HH-mm-ss>Copy to clipboardErrorCopied

Note: Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) is optional.

AWS

Console

1. Login to AWS via GCC.

2. In the search bar, type “EC2“ and select it.

3. Ensure the selected region is set to Asia Pacific (Singapore).

4. Launch an instance. Under Application and OS Images (Amazon Machine Image), go to My AMIs → Shared with me.

5. Select the SBI AMI flavour of your choice.

Terraform

Example for RHEl 9 Terraform AMI:

 rhel9-ami-var.tf 

# For RHEL 9
data "aws_ami" "latest_rhel89 {
  most_recent = true
  owners      = ["self"]

  filter {
    name   = "name"
    values = ["GT_GCCS_StandardBuild_RHEL_9*"]
  }

  filter {
    name   = "state"
    values = ["available"]
  }
}Copy to clipboardErrorCopied

 main.tf 

resource "aws_instance" "example" {
  ami           = data.aws_ami.latest_rhel9.id
  instance_type = "t3.micro"
  # ... other configuration ...
}Copy to clipboardErrorCopied

Azure

Coming soon

GCC+

Coming soon