Building an Oracle Linux Amazon Web Services AMI with Packer

No need to explain why Amazon Web Services is a nice platform to run Oracle. The largest IaaS Cloud Provider is one of the few Oracle Authorized Cloud Environments. You can Bring Your Own "Oracle" Licenses (BYOL) on AWS EC2 or RDS. You can pay for what you've provisioned because it is considered as a hard partitioned Platform.
Obviously, there are some drawbacks including the one pointed by Marc Fielding on Pythian's Blog or the fact you cannot run RAC. But it is, for sure, a nice playground to run Oracle technologies, your applications on Oracle or any Oracle applications including JD Edwards, Peoplesoft, Oracle E-Business Suite and many more... In addition, Amazon RDS for Oracle offers an attractive pay-per-use and "per-hour" model for Oracle Database SE1.
On the other hand, Oracle Linux is probably the best operating system to run Oracle, on AWS EC2 like on any x86_64 Platforms: it requires one-only rpm to be ready for most Oracle software; it is free…
Obviously, there are some drawbacks including the one pointed by Marc Fielding on Pythian's Blog or the fact you cannot run RAC. But it is, for sure, a nice playground to run Oracle technologies, your applications on Oracle or any Oracle applications including JD Edwards, Peoplesoft, Oracle E-Business Suite and many more... In addition, Amazon RDS for Oracle offers an attractive pay-per-use and "per-hour" model for Oracle Database SE1.
On the other hand, Oracle Linux is probably the best operating system to run Oracle, on AWS EC2 like on any x86_64 Platforms: it requires one-only rpm to be ready for most Oracle software; it is free…