Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2023 18:31:29 -0800 From: "Pat Maddox" <pat@patmaddox.com> To: freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How are official EC2 images built? Message-ID: <39256c80-e375-44cf-9840-66eb8a43db2e@app.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <dff102d7-b46c-41db-ac82-676ffba0c485@app.fastmail.com> References: <20230306021533.ght5ouvxg6zrihfr@icepick.vmeta.jp> <dff102d7-b46c-41db-ac82-676ffba0c485@app.fastmail.com>
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One thing I left out - with the second approach I shared, you have to make the AMI with UEFI mode. -Pat On Sun, Mar 5, 2023, at 6:30 PM, Pat Maddox wrote: > https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/release/Makefile.ec2 > > https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/release/tools/ec2.conf > > I have opted to build images a bit differently, not using the stuff in > src/release. I’ve done two approaches. > > The first is to attach a second disk to an EC2 instance, install > FreeBSD onto it with customizations, and then image the disk > (https://gist.github.com/patmaddox/9f20edcb50ff15fa9edd1d4e38d07e50). > > The way I’m doing it now is to use poudriere to make an img file, and > then upload that image to S3, snapshot it (aws ec2 import-snapshot > –disk-container Format=raw,Url=s3://mybucket/myimage.img) and finally > make an AMI from that snapshot. > > The stuff in src/release is good for knowing what changes to make to > config files, or packages to install. > > Pat > > On Sun, Mar 5, 2023, at 6:15 PM, Koichiro Iwao wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Does anyone how offical EC2 images [1] are built? >> I mean if the build script is public. I would like to create private >> custom images with some customization based on official image. >> >> [1] >> https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile?id=92bb514d-02bc-49fd-9727-c474863f63da&ref=dtl_prodview-ukzmy5dzc6nbq >> >> -- >> meta <meta@FreeBSD.org>help
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