On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 03:53:03PM +0000, Rafal Lukawiecki wrote: > Is there a list of AWS AMI ids (and regions) containing Colin’s AMI builder > AMI? The 2015 article > http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2015-11-21-FreeBSD-AMI-builder-AMI.html > <http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2015-11-21-FreeBSD-AMI-builder-AMI.html> > mentions one in us-east-1 ami-28682f42. Are there more? Or a documented > procedure on using RE tools to achieve the same? > > I am particularly interested in recompiling 11.1 release kernel, adding a > good few packages (to speed up instance launch time) and creating an AMI out > of that. Of course, I can take the lazy route of building a normal AWS AMI, > which will not be as “clean and unused” as the one suggested in Colin’s > article. But if there is a current way to do the cleaner thing, I would like > to know, please.
Your best bet is to use the official FreeBSD AMI, do your changes, and build an AMI out of that. We do this with the help of ansible: - boot official ami - install ansible - download ansible playbooks from S3 to /tmp - run ansible - clean /tmp - build AMI - ... - PROFIT -- Michiel van Baak [email protected] GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6FFC75A2679ED069 NB: I have a new GPG key. Old one revoked and revoked key updated on keyservers.
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