Rev 4182: (robertc) Various tweaks to ec2 stuff, in file:///home/pqm/archives/thelove/bzr/%2Btrunk/

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revno: 4182
revision-id: pqm at pqm.ubuntu.com-20090323011727-b4nl10tcxfo4jiwb
parent: pqm at pqm.ubuntu.com-20090322021619-onz77khivwa932zn
parent: robertc at robertcollins.net-20090323002527-95y8gqjyzjuzazxl
committer: Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager <pqm at pqm.ubuntu.com>
branch nick: +trunk
timestamp: Mon 2009-03-23 01:17:27 +0000
message:
  (robertc) Various tweaks to ec2 stuff,
  	and make it less windows only. (Robert Collins)
renamed:
  doc/developers/ec2-windows.txt => doc/developers/ec2.txt ec2windows.txt-20090219062112-2ga0nqpcm7n02njf-1
modified:
  doc/developers/index.txt       index.txt-20070508041241-qznziunkg0nffhiw-1
  doc/developers/ec2.txt         ec2windows.txt-20090219062112-2ga0nqpcm7n02njf-1
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    revno: 4165.3.2
    revision-id: robertc at robertcollins.net-20090323002527-95y8gqjyzjuzazxl
    parent: robertc at robertcollins.net-20090320051948-hqjmr3bfn8pscv8z
    committer: Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net>
    branch nick: ec2-ubuntu
    timestamp: Mon 2009-03-23 11:25:27 +1100
    message:
      Review feedback.
    modified:
      doc/developers/ec2.txt         ec2windows.txt-20090219062112-2ga0nqpcm7n02njf-1
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    revno: 4165.3.1
    revision-id: robertc at robertcollins.net-20090320051948-hqjmr3bfn8pscv8z
    parent: pqm at pqm.ubuntu.com-20090319035632-3o6ewx7kwnk42b63
    committer: Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net>
    branch nick: ec2-ubuntu
    timestamp: Fri 2009-03-20 16:19:48 +1100
    message:
      Various tweaks to ec2 stuff, and make it less windows only.
    renamed:
      doc/developers/ec2-windows.txt => doc/developers/ec2.txt ec2windows.txt-20090219062112-2ga0nqpcm7n02njf-1
    modified:
      doc/developers/index.txt       index.txt-20070508041241-qznziunkg0nffhiw-1
      doc/developers/ec2.txt         ec2windows.txt-20090219062112-2ga0nqpcm7n02njf-1
=== renamed file 'doc/developers/ec2-windows.txt' => 'doc/developers/ec2.txt'
--- a/doc/developers/ec2-windows.txt	2009-03-03 02:23:29 +0000
+++ b/doc/developers/ec2.txt	2009-03-23 00:25:27 +0000
@@ -69,12 +69,15 @@
 an administrator for ease of installing software.
 
 You do need to have an RSA keypair to get the initial password for a
-Windows machine, even though you can't use it to log in later.  As a quirk
-of the tools(?) ``ec2-get-password`` needs the full path to the keypair
-but ``ec2-add-keypair`` just wants part of the name.  I guess this is
-distinct from the account identifier because the image is relatively
-untrusted(?).  If the password is already set in the image, this shouldn't
-be necessary.
+Windows machine, even though you can't use it to log in later.
+``ec2-get-password`` takes the full path to the private key to obtain the
+password from Amazon, and ``ec2-add-keypair`` creates a named keypair at
+Amazon and returns the private path. One keypair is all that is needed.
+This is distinct from the account identifier - likely due to the different
+toolchains in use (the keypairs are used for unix ssh keys, and I (Robert)
+suspect a rather unix friendly core at Amazon).
+Once a custom image is made with a saved password, you can skip using 
+``ec2-get-password`` (which is only needed for Windows anyway).
 
 It would be nice if rdesktop could use private key authentication but
 apparently not.
@@ -95,29 +98,40 @@
 * Install the
   `Amazon EC2 API tools`_ (needs-packaging `bug 330930`_)
 
+* Create an Amazon Web Services account, sign up for S3 and EC2, and do
+  the various steps to create authentication devices.
+
 * Create a private key and certificate for yourself.
   Check these environment variables are set and exported, e.g. by setting
   them in the file ``~/.aws``.  Make sure the files are private.::
 
-    EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/.ec2/pk-XXXXXX.pem
-    EC2_CERT=~/.ec2/cert-XXXXXX.pem
-    EC2_HOME=~/build/ec2-api-tools-1.3-30349
-    AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=XXXXXXXXX
-    AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=XXXXXXXXXXX
-    PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin
-    JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk
+    export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/.ec2/pk-XXXXXX.pem
+    export EC2_CERT=~/.ec2/cert-XXXXXX.pem
+    export EC2_HOME=~/build/ec2-api-tools-1.3-30349
+    export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=XXXXXXXXX
+    export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=XXXXXXXXXXX
+    export EC2_KEYPAIR_NAME=XXXXXXXXX
+    export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin
+    export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk
+    ssh-add ~/.ec2/id_rsa
+
+  You can now '. ~/.aws' to get the ec2 commands available.
+
+* (Unix images only) run ec2-add-keypair SOMENAME, e.g. 'bzr'. Put the
+  result (minus the first line) somewhere like ~/.ec2/id_rsa and chmod go-rw.
+
+* A useful Unix image is `ami-bdfe19d4`_, Eric Hammonds 64-bit Ubuntu image.
 
 * Install the rdesktop client, to actually access the machine.
 
-* Create an Amazon Web Services account, sign up for S3 and EC2, and do
-  the various steps to create authentication devices 
-
 * Possibly read some of the `EC2 documentation`_ for background.
    
 .. _`bug 330930`: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/330930 
 .. _`Amazon EC2 API tools`: 
      http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=368&categoryID=88
 .. _`EC2 documentation`: http://aws.amazon.com/
+.. _`ami-bdfe19d4`:
+   http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1762&categoryID=101
 
 * Create a security group for your that allows rdesktop access and icmp with::
 
@@ -185,5 +199,10 @@
       ec2-modify-image-attributes $ami_id -l -a 123412341234
 
 
+Management console (useful!)
+----------------------------
+
+https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home
+
 ..
    vim: ft=rst tw=74 ai

=== modified file 'doc/developers/index.txt'
--- a/doc/developers/index.txt	2009-03-19 03:25:31 +0000
+++ b/doc/developers/index.txt	2009-03-23 01:17:27 +0000
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@
 * `Profiling notes <profiling.html>`_ |--| Instructions on how to profile 
   bzr code and visualize the results.
 
-* `EC2 Windows server <ec2-windows.html>`_ |--| A team resource for 
-  Windows packaging and testing.
+* `EC2 resources <ec2.html>`_ |--| A team resource for 
+  Windows packaging and testing, and Ubuntu testing.
 
 Plans
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