[ec2-beta] Using latest kernel in Europe?

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Eric Hammond wrote:
> Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
>   
>> Soren, Eric, what are the constraints in us extending the beta2 to
>> include EU?
>>     
>
> To copy an AMI from US to EU only requires creating an S3 bucket in EU
> and running a couple commands like:
>
> ec2-migrate-bundle                \
>   --retry                         \
>   -c $EC2_CERT                    \
>   -k $EC2_PRIVATE_KEY             \
>   -a $AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID           \
>   -s $AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY       \
>   --bucket $from_bucket           \
>   --destination-bucket $to_bucket \
>   --manifest $manifest            \
>   --ec2cert $EC2_CERT             \
>   --location EU                   \
>   --region eu-west-1              \
>   --kernel $new_aki               \
>   --ramdisk $new_ari
>
> ec2-register                      \
>   --region eu-west-1              \
>   $to_bucket/$manifest
>
> Canonical will also have to copy the AKIs and ARIs to EU.  I am not
> familiar with this process but have hopes it should be nearly as simple.
>   
I guess this needs to be a standard part of the "new or updated image
available for rollout across EC2" procedure.

Rick, Chuck, who owns that process, and where is it documented?

> Once this is done the beta documentation will need to be updated to list
> the AMI ids with their respective regions.
>
> In the long run, there are considerations about what Ubuntu repositories
> should be used (geographical) and whether separate AMIs should be built,
> but in the short to mid term it would be easiest to simply copy and use
> the same images in both regions.
>   
I'd prefer to use exactly the same bits. We're discussing how to make
that efficient for archive mirrors, in a separate thread.

Mark
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