rpetre · September 18, 2012 22:24
diff --git a/gistfile1.txt b/gistfile1.txt
 For starters, you need an AWS account (not really getting into detail here, you only need a valid credit card for that with at least a couple of bucks on it). Make sure you sign on for EC2 and IAM at least.

 In the IAM console I added a 'debuild' user, with permissions for everything ec2, made a key and cert for it (TODO: figure out finer-grained permissions, if possible).

 Start some Linux instance in the region you want (I operate on eu-west-1, for now). Get root on it. mkdir /root/ec2 , go there.

 wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2-ami-tools.zip and http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2-api-tools.zip, unzip both of them.

 Download https://github.com/andsens/ec2debian-build-ami/tarball/master, untar it. get the environment script at the end of README.md in a file and edit it. For the private cert and key, get the ones made for the debuild IAM user. AWS_USER_ID is actually the username (for a IAM user).

 source the env file ( with '.')

 You can now run the ec2debian-build-ami (you may want to try --help first).
 (My preference is to edit plugins/standard-packages-tasks/add-standard-packages and add a bunch of packages, then add --plugin plugins/standard-packages-tasks to the command line)

 When it's done it'll publish the AMI as something like debian-squeeze-amd64-YYYYMMDD (by default), you'll find it in the AMI list (with ec2-describe-images -o self, for instance)
	For starters, you need an AWS account (not really getting into detail here, you only need a valid credit card for that with at least a couple of bucks on it). Make sure you sign on for EC2 and IAM at least.

	In the IAM console I added a 'debuild' user, with permissions for everything ec2, made a key and cert for it (TODO: figure out finer-grained permissions, if possible).

	Start some Linux instance in the region you want (I operate on eu-west-1, for now). Get root on it. mkdir /root/ec2 , go there.

	wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2-ami-tools.zip and http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2-api-tools.zip, unzip both of them.

	Download https://github.com/andsens/ec2debian-build-ami/tarball/master, untar it. get the environment script at the end of README.md in a file and edit it. For the private cert and key, get the ones made for the debuild IAM user. AWS_USER_ID is actually the username (for a IAM user).

	source the env file ( with '.')

	You can now run the ec2debian-build-ami (you may want to try --help first).
	(My preference is to edit plugins/standard-packages-tasks/add-standard-packages and add a bunch of packages, then add --plugin plugins/standard-packages-tasks to the command line)

	When it's done it'll publish the AMI as something like debian-squeeze-amd64-YYYYMMDD (by default), you'll find it in the AMI list (with ec2-describe-images -o self, for instance)
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