Find the AWS AMI that a RightScale server template is using

When you use RightScale to launch servers in the cloud, you want to use the same base image to test your Chef cookbooks in Test Kitchen.

Packer by Hashicorp is a utility to create custom server images based on cloud images. You supply the image ID and other configuration parameters to create a new custom image.

To find the AMI ID of the base image of the RightScale Server Template

1. Open the RightScale user interface in your browser,
2. Select the RightScale account where the server template was created,
3. In RightScale Cloud Management select  Design / ServerTemplates,
4. Select the server template,
5. Select Images,
6. Select the MultiCloud image,
7. Select Clouds,
8. Select the image in the region you are working in,
9. The Resource UID is the AMI ID of the image.