[ubuntu-cloud] How are Ubuntu images built?

[John Pugh]

On 11/18/2010 06:39 PM, Spike Spiegel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Eric Hammond <ehammond at thinksome.com> wrote:
>> I think you mean to ask about how the "Ubuntu" AMIs are built. The  Ubuntu AMIs I published under the Alestic name are mostly old and not strongly recommended any more.
> 
> ah, thanks for pointing that out, I am indeed after the "Ubuntu" AMIs
> built with whatever the modern approach is, which I can't still quite
> put my finger on unfortunately. Is there any chance you could point me
> to some documentation or pass me some details about that process? As
> it is neither vmbuilder nor a manual deboostrap + fixups that used to
> work on older versions seem to produce an usable Lucid image.

I think this is what you are looking for...

https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-on-ec2/vmbuilder/automated-ec2-builds

I believe it uses a patched version of vmbuilder to produce images.

JP