Re: AWS EC2 AMIs

[Jan Schaumann <jschauma%netmeister.org@localhost>]

Jan Schaumann <jschauma%netmeister.org@localhost> wrote:
> I found
> https://wiki.netbsd.org/amazon_ec2/bsdec2_image_upload/
> and am currently looking to make time to give that a
> try.

That appears to work!

I pulled down the evbarm 9.1 image from
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-9.1/evbarm-aarch64/binary/gzimg/arm64.img.gz

I 'git clone'd
https://github.com/cperciva/bsdec2-image-upload and
ran 'make' in there.

(The version from pkgsrc didn't work because it was
built using an older OpenSSL, I think?)

I ceated a new S3 bucket and an AWS IAM user with S3
and EC2 privileges, put the ACCESS_KEY_ID and
ACCESS_KEY_SECRET into a keyfile and ran

./bsdec2-image-upload/bsdec2-image-upload/bsdec2-image-upload \
	--sriov --ena --arm64 arm64.img "NetBSD 9.1 Arm" \
	"NetBSD/evbarm 9.1" ${AWS_REGION} \
	${S3BUCKET} keyfile.txt

After that:

Uploading arm64.img to <s3bucket> in 115
part(s)...................................................................................................................
done.
Uploading volume manifest... done.
Importing volume: Pending.
Importing volume: Progress: 10%...
Importing volume: Progress: 15%.
Importing volume: Progress: 20%
Importing volume: Progress: 25%.
Importing volume: Progress: 30%.
Importing volume: Progress: 35%
Importing volume: Progress: 40% done.
Creating snapshot....... done.
Registering AMI... done.
Created AMI in us-east-1 region: ami-08b87fed21cce91cb

I could then create a new EC2 instance of type
a1.medium using that AMI.  Some output at:
http://www.netmeister.org/tmp/netbsd-evbarm-ec2

I've made the image public, so you can give it a try.
I have to check what the cost factor for keeping AMIs
in my account, so this may disappear again, but at
least it looks like the tool by Colin Percival works
well enough to create images!

-Jan