[chef] Re: knife ec2 plugin

[Peter Norton < >]

Creating an AMI is tricky because there are 2 varieties of AMIs: 1 is the instance-store, the other is the ebs-backed.  They each require a different set of actions.  The instance-store requires that you place the amazon ssl key and cert on the instance to be stamped, while the ebs method requires that to get a consistent image you need to reboot the instance.  Both require that you then do some stuff after the snapshot is taken etc.

So it's not trivially simple, but the above will help you get started.  I have some ironfan-based clusters and recipes to make this work, but ironfan isn't required to do this yourself.  If you ping me I can probably provide some guidance, but I'm short of bandwidth at the moment.

-Peter

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Maven User < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi all -

With knife's ec2 plugin (which is awesome), I can create and instance from an ami, but I cannot go the other way.

The use case is this:

virgin ubuntu 12.X ami -> knife clone/bootstrap with our product -> create ami from this instance (for consumption elsewhere)

Before I start diving down this rabbit hole, is/was there a reason NOT to do this?  Time? Or was there a technical reason?  Does this feature exist and I don't see it?

Just curious, seems like a good feature to have but don't want to waste a ton of time if there was a technical reason NOT to do this.