blalor/ami-creator

Basic tool to create AMIs for EC2 based off of a kickstart config

ami-creator

A simple tool built on python-imgcreate to create CentOS AMIs for EC2 using Kickstart configs. Supports ebs- and instance-store-backed instances.

howto

1. clone this repo on an EC2 instance

2. attach a 10G EBS volume, attach it so it appears at /dev/xvdj

3. create /media/ephemeral0/build and /media/ephemeral0/cache directories

4. create the base image from a kickstart config:

   sudo ./ami_creator/ami_creator.py -c ks-centos6.cfg -n my-image-name -t /media/ephemeral0/build --cache=/media/ephemeral0/cache

5. transfer the image to the attached EBS volume:

   sudo prepare-volume.sh

6. create and launch the instance:

   ./create-image.sh

add'l resources

• Announcing ami-creator
• CentOS AMIs from Kickstart
• How to build your own S3- and EBS-backed instances
• Using Your Own Linux Kernels - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
• How to make your own CentOS 6 AMIs
• CentOS 5 kickstart options

original README

ami-creator

A simple tool based on python-imgcreate to create Fedora/Red Hat style 
images that can be used as an AMI in EC2.

Takes a kickstart config like the rest of livecd-creator, etc and spits out a
disk image file that's suitable to upload as an s3 ami.  To do the upload right
now, you'll want to run something like
    ec2-bundle-image
    ec2-upload-bundle
    ec2-register
after having created your base image file.  

Tested with the following as guests:
  * CentOS 5.5
  * Fedora 14
See the configs/ directory for example configs that work for each of these.


Jeremy Katz <[email protected]>
2010 December 10