Good evening, all. I just tried spinning up a CentOS instance in EC2 using ami-de5bd2ee from the AWS marketplace. I put a dummy script into the user-data field when launching the instance from the EC2 console but found it didn't work, even though the SSH key for the root user did. I pinged Karanbir on ##aws and he suggested I post here to get the conversation started. I'm currently looking into what it takes to roll my own AMI; I've already invested a fair bit of work into creating packages and Puppet config based on a CentOS 6.3 system (mainly with Vagrant), and my initial test with Amazon's Linux AMI wasn't promising. I think execution of the user-data script is a must-have, as it's the only way to automate the creation of a new instance without external tools. Thanks, Brian
Hi, On 01/23/2013 01:30 AM, Brian Lalor wrote:> Good evening, all. I just tried spinning up a CentOS instance in EC2 using ami-de5bd2ee from the AWS marketplace. I put a dummy script into the user-data field when launching the instance from the EC2 console but found it didn't work, even though the SSH key for the root user did. I pinged Karanbir on ##aws and he suggested I post here to get the conversation started. > > I'm currently looking into what it takes to roll my own AMI; I've already invested a fair bit of work into creating packages and Puppet config based on a CentOS 6.3 system (mainly with Vagrant), and my initial test with Amazon's Linux AMI wasn't promising. I think execution of the user-data script is a must-have, as it's the only way to automate the creation of a new instance without external tools.Getting ready to roll out another set of updated AWS images. So this is a good time to have the conversation about cloud-init Firstly, what is the best version to go with ? I know there is a maintained cloud-init in EPEL but that seems to be 0.6.x based, whereas lots of people seem to be focusing on 0.7.x as the best rpm based distro supported option. thoughts ? - Kb -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc
Hi Karanbir, Thanks so much for your dedication and assistance! Glenn has been working in background to obtain a response to your query. Phillip will be reaching out to you directly in the near term to discuss in more detail. The Very Best! Bruce Basil Mathews HP Cloud Services, DBaaS Architect Hewlett-Packard Company +1 760 961 7699 / Tel +1 760 553 3197 / Mobile bruce.mathews at hp.com / Email 12386 Pocomoke Road Apple Valley, CA 92308 USA HP Public Cloud Site: http://www.hpcloud.com 'All the world is a stage, and all the men and women in it, merely players' Jaquis, As You Like It! Please consider the environment before printing this email. -----Original Message----- From: Karanbir Singh [mailto:kbsingh at centos.org] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 11:33 AM To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS Cc: Mathews, Bruce; Ferguson, Glenn (Cloud Services) Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] cloud-init in CentOS 6.3 images On 02/08/2013 07:24 PM, Mathews, Bruce wrote:> Linux: > CentOS 6.2 Server 64 bit > CentOS 5.6 Server 64 bitThis is what we want to fix ( where we == CentOS Project ). You should not be shipping images that are so far out of date. that 5.6 Server image is based on code that was released in Sept 2011. How can we fix this ? And this isnt really fixed by the users being able to bring in their own images, this really needs addressing at the hpcloud.com level. From our end, I am willing to do whatever is needed to make things work, you just need to not make it as painful as its been in the past. Regards -- Karanbir Singh, The CentOS Project +44-207-0999389 | http://www.centos.org/ | twitter.com/CentOS GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc