Hi Adam, I'm the lead of BoxGrinder [1] project, which could help you a lot. The goal is to make appliances (for AWS too) from _simple_ definitions. If you want to have a kickstart based solution, you need to wait for the instructions. On 2010-08-04, at 00:00, Adam Back wrote: > I looked at the meeting minutes posted recently and list archive, but it > still unclear to me: > > could someone give an indication of the scale of work to have a fedora 13 > available as an EC2 AMI/AKI? Using BoxGrinder it is as follows: # it will pull required gems gem install boxgrinder-build-fedora-os-plugin boxgrinder-build-ec2-platform-plugin boxgrinder-build-s3-delivery-plugin # required packages on fedora yum install appliance-tools yum-utils ruby-libguestfs parted e2fsprogs rsync wget util-linux-ng # you need to have also ec2-ami-tools package rpm -Uvh http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2-ami-tools.noarch.rpm Put in a file called 'jeos-f13.appl' this definition: http://github.com/stormgrind/stormfolio/raw/master/appliances/jeos-f13.appl And run: boxgrinder-build jeos-f13.appl -p ec2 -d ami This will build the appliance, convert to EC2 format, bundle it, upload and register as AMI in AWS. You need also configure one file ~/.boxgrinder/plugins/s3. Instructions available here: http://community.jboss.org/wiki/BoxGrinderBuildPluginsDeliveryS3 > Is there a dependency on the AWS team to get a > suitable AKI built to enable this? Any AWS team members able to comment on > the eta for a suitable AKI? There is no need to have AKI/ARI combination for AWS. AWS uses pvgrun which enables us to use our own (shipped in AMI) kernel. I built (with steps described above) AMI for i386 and x86_64 and you can use it now: 32 bit: ami-48d93221 64 bit: ami-4cd93225 > I would like to use latest stable fedora under EC2 but the situation with > FC8 being the latest makes that difficult. Its long outside of its security > lifecycle and quite old which creates its own problems other than the > security issue! Yah, it was a pain. Fortunately we have now F13 on AWS. HTH [1] http://www.jboss.org/stormgrind/projects/boxgrinder.html --Marek _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
