Re: Proposal for AMI Lifetimes

[Aditya Patawari]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 1:26 AM, Sayan Chowdhury <
sayan.chowdhury2012(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>  Currently, We don't delete any of the AMIs that are created by fedimg. Even
>  though Amazon does not charge for the AMIs but snapshots which back
>  the AMIs does cost us. We cannot delete the snapshots until the AMIs
>  are deregistered. In the
>  last few months the number of AMIs has grown which has led to humongous
>  bills.
>
>  So, we need to delete the AMIs based on parameters on which we can
>  de-register
>  the AMIs and delete the associated snapshots.
>
>  So, me and Kushal want to propose the following based on the
>  discussion on the trac[1] and mailing list[2]. We updated the
>  trac ticket[1] with this proposal.
>
>  1. Delete the pre-release AMIs after the final release.
>  2. Delete the nightly builds every five days.
>
>  Can all the WG members vote on the ticket?
>  
I am not sure if I am allowed to vote or not but I got some scripts written
in python in boto library which I used to run in crontab to delete amis
periodically. Let me know if you need help around that.


>  [1] https://fedorahosted.org/cloud/ticket/99
>  [2] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/cloud/2015-March/005087.html
>
>
>  Sayan
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