[ec2-beta] EC2 tools in most recent official Ubuntu AMIs

[james.r.wyatt at gmail.com]

Bump...

The ami tools are outdated and don't allow a bundle to be uploaded into a subpath inside of a bucket.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Dav Clark <dav at alum.mit.edu>

Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 14:43:10 
To: <ec2-beta at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: [ec2-beta] EC2 tools in most recent official Ubuntu AMIs


Hi,

I'm trying to bundle an image with a variety of specialized (painful /  
slow to install) software for brain imaging research.

I tried creating and uploading a bundle using the instructions here:

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/GettingStartedGuide/index.html?creating-an-image.html

This was based on the most recent canonical 32-bit 8.10 / intrepid  
images (ami-5059be39, aka canonical-cloud-us/ubuntu-intrepid-20090422- 
i386.manifest.xml).

Creating the image and uploading the bundle appeared to go fine.   
However, there was nothing like an ec2-register command.  No problem,  
I thought, I'll just use the ec2 tools on my machine in lab.  But still,

BUG 1: ec2 tools on the canonical images are out of date / incomplete

Note - they are using the ruby versions... I don't know if the lack of  
ec2-register is a ruby thing or what.  ec2-ami-tools-version on the  
canonical image yields:

1.3-31057 20071010

Moving along...

There appears to be some sort of strange permission problem using ec2- 
register from my home machine.  With the permissions left as they  
were, I get a 403 error trying to access my manifest.  But I don't  
understand why:

  - I am absolutely sure I used the same pk and cert files (I uploaded  
them from the machine in lab that I'm now trying to use the ec2- 
register command from)
  - I updated to the most recent EC2 tools (1.3-34128 2009-03-01), and  
also tried 1.3-30349
  - i am able to launch ec2 instances, for example, with no problem
  - za-team has read access to everything, my account has full access  
to everything
  - If I make everything readable to "authenticated users" I get the  
following 404:

Client.InvalidManifest: HTTP 404 (Not Found) response for URL http://s3.amazonaws.com:80/cognac-public/CognAcAMI.manifext.xml 
: check your manifest path is correct and in the correct region.

I also was able to find a link in an amazon developer forum to the  
31057 version of the tools.  But, there is no mention of these tools  
on the amazon website:

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=87

I think I am missing something fundamental here... is there some old  
way of booting an AMI that I don't know about?  The old docs on  
bundling seem to have evaporated...

Thanks!
Dav



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