How the Fedora cloud images are made [was Re: Fedora 18 RC1 Amazon EC2 images available for testing]

[Robyn Bergeron]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Miller" <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
> To: phil at pricom.com.au, "Fedora Cloud SIG" <cloud at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 8:22:39 AM
> Subject: How the Fedora cloud images are made [was Re: Fedora 18 RC1 Amazon	EC2 images available for testing]
> 
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:49:45PM +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> > OK but what is the effort required to build my own? (it appears to
> > be more difficult than just a ks build?).  And if I can roll my
> > own,
> > I presume I can upload it to my account in the Sydney region?
> 
> The kickstart comes from
> 
>   http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/cloud-kickstarts.git/tree/ec2
> 
> It's built (into a raw image) in Fedora's Koji build system using
> appliance-creator, and then processed and uploaded to EC2 using
> scripts
> from https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/browser/scripts/cloud.
> 
> That has a lot of Fedora-rel-eng-specific stuff, though. For building
> your
> own, I think ami-creator is probably the easiest. See:
> https://github.com/katzj/ami-creator.

All that said - I believe that we upload the final release to nearly all regions, though if someone else would like to confirm that it might be more factual and less based upon my memory :)

-Robyn
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