Feature: Image Builder Pre and Post components

[mrgum]

Hello,

The current Image Builder custom components are all post components, in that they run after everything else.

I'd like to have Pre components that run before the os update/parallelcluster components

For example I'd like to install hdf5 dev libraries before parallelcluster runs so that the slurm install picks it up and builds with hdf5 support.

Happy to submit a PR but I thought I'd get comments first.

[hgreebe]

Hi,
We have a task in our back log for this. As a workaround, you can launch an instance from your parent AMI, install the necessary libraries, create a new AMI from that instance, and then use that AMI for the pcluster build image.

[mrgum]

Thanks, I'm creating my own base AMI and it is working well.