[ubuntu-cloud] Ubuntu EC2 EBS images

[Scott Moser]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Ulrich Weber wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> whats the build process of the Ubuntu EC2 EBS images? Are there
> automated scripts or are they build manually?
>
>
> I want to build my own EC2 EBS images. With Instance storage everything
> works quite automated. But I'm struggling with the EBS ones.
>
> To create an EBS AMI, I have to setup a Linux instance on each location,
> create a EBS Volume, attach it and copy all files to the new EBS volume.
> Is there any easier solution?

Its all automated. information on the build process is at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UEC/Images/Publishing .

For ebs populating the code is at
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-on-ec2/ubuntu-on-ec2/ec2-publishing-scripts/view/head:/ec2-image2ebs
.

Your process is correct, though, you basically have to launch an instance,
attach a volume, pupulate, detach, snapshot, register, in each region.