Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 14:35:25 -0700 From: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New FreeBSD/EC2 AMIs: "small" flavour Message-ID: <trt7u3zuw6z2qbmjdupdnsjxyxvlkwe5r46lctptxu5f6wdlup@pszg633yynxn> In-Reply-To: <24b38eba-428b-4484-92fe-5e33927288c8@freebsd.org> References: <f5b8dfa6-071c-41e4-8696-feb1495884ab@freebsd.org> <66e66b9b-084b-47e4-862e-98141c47a856@app.fastmail.com> <01000191afb2427e-8bb3eb6e-81f7-48a9-bc10-d7e4e8865dd2-000000@email.amazonses.com> <6d44f095-d137-456f-8194-e3430647810f@app.fastmail.com> <e22eabe7-f852-42ac-9ac4-048302163d4d@freebsd.org> <89fab9d3-1ace-4444-aafb-cbdd9a5b0f52@nomadlogic.org> <24b38eba-428b-4484-92fe-5e33927288c8@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 10:22:37AM UTC, Colin Percival wrote: > On 9/2/24 08:19, Pete Wright wrote: > > this seems like a good idea from my POV as an admin. Although I think > > it may be helpful to keep the AWS CLI install on boot step in some > > use-cases. My general workflow is to use packer to build a site > > specific AMI where I install our specific configs and run freebsd-update > > then disable it on subsequent boots. My goal in those scenarios is to > > improve first-boot time for auto-scaling. > > > > When I do use "vanilla" AMI's its usually for a > > research/testing/debugging task so having the awscli get installed on > > firstboot would save me some hassle of having to do that by hand. It's > > certainly not a deal breaker though, just my two bits. > > The "small" AMIs still have firstboot-pkgs installed, so you can launch the > image with a user-data file of > > >>/etc/rc.conf > firstboot_pkgs_list="devel/py-awscli" > > and it will install that package for you. I just figured that if people > wanted "small" then it made sense to change the default. > yep i understand and it makes sense. for my personal workflow having the awscli is a hard requirement, but as you mention installing it is trvial. -petehome | help
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