RE: Instance-store Amazon AMI

[Cédric Jeanneret <debian@tengu.ch>]

Hello James,

I didn't see this hint in the documentation, my bad. That's great !

Thanks a lot

Cheers,

C.

On 2013-01-31 12:56, Bromberger, James wrote:
> In CloudFormation, against your instance (or Launch Configuration if
> using AutoScale), use:
>
> "BlockDeviceMappings" : [ { "DeviceName"  : "/dev/sdf", "VirtualName"
> : "ephemeral0" } ]
>
> And in your UserData, you may want a script to test the volume for a
> partition, and if empty do a format and mount.
>
>
>
> --
> James Bromberger | Solution Architect | Amazon Web Services
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cédric Jeanneret [mailto:debian@tengu.ch]
> > Sent: Thursday, 31 January 2013 5:22 PM
> > To: debian-cloud@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: Instance-store Amazon AMI
> >
> > Hello Anders,
> >
> > Oh, I see. Yes, right we can add them through the AWS Console. Fact 
> > is, we
> > do not want to create our own AMI anymore, so I don't think I'll 
> > patch the
> > code and recreate the AMI ;).
> > I just have to find out whether this can be done in our 
> > cloudformation
> > (CFN) templates - pretty sure Amazon thought about it.
> >
> > It may be just good to add some warning regarding the lack of 
> > default
> > ephemeral storage on either the wiki page (btw, registered AMI on 
> > this page
> > are wrong :/ ) or amazon marketplace. If I have some nice CFN stuff, 
> > I will
> > post it in here - just have to see with my work team if this 
> > solution is suitable
> > for us.
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your work and your answer.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > C.
> >
> > On 2013-01-31 10:10, Anders Ingemann wrote:
> > > Actually, I used to do that by default
> > >
> > > (https://github.com/andsens/ec2debian-build-
> > ami/commit/0119aa17b8ffaf7
> > > 6002426e277a7a309278ffc94
> > > [2]) but removed that feature because you now can mount them 
> > manually
> > > in AWS when starting an instance. The problem is that you will 
> > have
> > > some invalid default mappings when starting instances. In order 
> > for
> > > this to work with all instance types, I have to map every 
> > conceivable
> > > instance store, which isn't very pretty. You can simply re-add the
> > > code in the above link to map all instance stores (keep in mind we 
> > use
> > > euca2ools instead of ec2-tools now) or possibly write a plugin for
> > > this...?
> > >
> > > Anders
> > >
> > > On 31 January 2013 09:50, Cédric Jeanneret <debian@tengu.ch> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hello!
> > >>
> > >> The Debian provided AMI are only EBS based, which is a bit 
> > crappy:
> > >> no ephemeral storage are attached by default. For example, 
> > creating
> > >> an m1.small instance based on the provided AMI should get a 150G
> > >> ephemeral storage under /dev/xvdb - but there's nothing at all 
> > :(.
> > >>
> > >> Would it be possible to provide "Instance store" AMI, as those 
> > one
> > >> will have the default ephemeral storage?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks a lot for you answers.
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >>
> > >> C.
> > >>
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> > >> u.ch
> > >> [1]
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Links:
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> > > [1]
> > >
> >
> > http://lists.debian.org/9050715d29e4635e8950808f1c21ec88@webmail.tengu
> > > .ch
> > > [2]
> > >
> > > https://github.com/andsens/ec2debian-build-
> > ami/commit/0119aa17b8ffaf76
> > > 002426e277a7a309278ffc94
> >
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