Re: JSON based API to query available AMIs

[Eric Hammond <ehammond@thinksome.com>]

On 11/21/2012 07:55 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> >    - A machine-queriable API that returns the latest AMI ids
> The JSON format you mentioned looks reasonable. However, this brings us
> back to the infrastructure question: we'll need to host a corresponding
> CGI (or whatever it is that implements the query service) somewhere.
> Where?

Even though I called it an "API", you probably could implement this as 
static JSON files without any CGI or dynamic calculations.

Every time you publish new AMIs, write new static JSON files with the 
latest ids.

> Out of curiosity: do you know of any other distro who has implemented it
> already? If not, it might be worth to advertise the format on some
> cross-distro mailing list, like <distributions@lists.freedesktop.org>.

Hm, I thought Ubuntu was already using it, but I guess it may still be 
in the proposal stage.

The Ubuntu person to include in discussions is:

  Ben Howard
  ben.howard@canonical.com

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Eric Hammond