[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: knife ec2 create invalid AMI error when us-west-2, but not us-east-1

[AJ Christensen < >]

You're not using --region in your ec2 server create calls. It isn't automatically inferred from the availability zone.

Cheers,

AJ

On 17 January 2013 09:42, < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

hmm. that AMI, 12.04 LTS 64bit instance-store, also fails for me in
us-west-2. but in us-east-1, ami-d726abbe, 12.04 LTS, works.

i don't understand ...

west:

[zahadum ~]$ knife ec2 server create -N host01.gruentea.com -E prod_foo -S prod-foo-keypair -Z us-west-2b -f m1.large -I ami-ca2ca4fa -g sg-xyz --user-data /path/chef-repo/nodes/node-host01.gruentea.com.json --distro okta-ubuntu-launch -VV

DEBUG: Using configuration from /home/kallen/.chef/knife.rb
ERROR: You have not provided a valid image (AMI) value.  Please note
the short option for this value recently changed from '-i' to '-I'.

east:

[zahadum ~]$ knife ec2 server create -N host02.gruentea.com -E dev_foo -S dev-foo-keypair -Z us-east-1c -f m1.large -I ami-d726abbe -g sg-d7a87777 --user-data /path/chef-repo/nodes/node-host02.gruentea.com.json --distro okta-ubuntu-launch -VV

DEBUG: Using configuration from /home/kallen/.chef/knife.rb

Instance ID: i-c5f9a3b4
Flavor: m1.large
Image: ami-d726abbe
Region: us-east-1
Availability Zone: us-east-1b
Security Group Ids: sg-05a8xxxxx
Tags: {"Name"=>"host02.gruentea.com"}
SSH Key: dev-foo-keypair

Waiting for server.....
[snip]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Darron Froese wrote:

> Just created one now for a test:
>
> knife ec2 server create -r "role[setup]" -I ami-ca2ca4fa -f m1.small
> -S keys-naw -G varnish -x ubuntu --region us-west-2 -Z us-west-2b
> --node-name test --distro ubuntu10.04-ruby187 -i ~/.keys/keys-naw.pem
>
> Got the AMI from here:
>
> http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:41 PM,  < "> > wrote:
> >
> > has anyone else on the list successfully created a node with knife ec2
> > in us-west-2? i'm wondering if it's just me, if i need to crack open
> > the the code to figure out how to further debug this.
> >
> > running the below-mentioned knife ec2 command with -VV only gives me:
> >
> > DEBUG: Using configuration from /home/kallen/.chef/knife.rb
> > ERROR: You have not provided a valid image (AMI) value.  Please note the short
> > option for this value recently changed from '-i' to '-I'.
> >
> >
> > kallen
> >
> > On Fri, 11 Jan 2013, "> wrote:
> >
> >> and yes, these AMIs do launch successfully when i use AWS's ec2-run-instances.