Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 12:35:52 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org>, freebsd-cloud@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: AWS Parameter Store AMIs Message-ID: <ee89d480-ce31-4a12-a12c-25bda09f5bce@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <58184e60-c9e7-492b-b3e1-942da8e567c8@nomadlogic.org> References: <58184e60-c9e7-492b-b3e1-942da8e567c8@nomadlogic.org>
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On 7/12/24 11:43, Pete Wright wrote: > I'd like to say thanks for putting the AMI's for recent releases in the aws > parameter store, this certainly makes it easier for automation purposes. Ooh, someone is actually using these? Awesome! Good to know it's not just me. :-) BTW depending on the nature of your automation you might also want to subscribe to SNS notifications of new AMIs: arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:782442783595:FreeBSDAMI > I have one request though - in the release notes could we update the prose > stating you can get the AMI's from the parameter store to include a hint about > how to do it using the CLI? Good idea. > Perhaps it could be updated to something similar to: > > "FreeBSD/aarch64 EC2 AMI IDs can be retrieved from the Systems Manager > Parameter Store via the AWS CLI by running the following command: > > 'aws --region $REGION ssm get-parameter --name $KEY' > > where $REGION is your desired AWS region, and $KEY is one of the following:" Does this look good? > FreeBSD/amd64 EC2 AMI IDs can be retrieved from the Systems Manager > Parameter Store via the AWS CLI using the command > > % aws --region $REGION ssm get-parameter --name $KEY > > where $REGION is the desired region and $KEY is one of the following keys: > > /aws/service/freebsd/amd64/base/ufs/15.0/CURRENT > /aws/service/freebsd/amd64/base/zfs/15.0/CURRENT > /aws/service/freebsd/amd64/cloud-init/ufs/15.0/CURRENT > /aws/service/freebsd/amd64/cloud-init/zfs/15.0/CURRENT > > FreeBSD/aarch64 EC2 AMI IDs can be retrieved using the keys: > > /aws/service/freebsd/arm64/base/ufs/15.0/CURRENT > /aws/service/freebsd/arm64/base/zfs/15.0/CURRENT > /aws/service/freebsd/arm64/cloud-init/ufs/15.0/CURRENT > /aws/service/freebsd/arm64/cloud-init/zfs/15.0/CURRENT I can make this change for next week's snapshot announcements. -- Colin Percival FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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