Bundle an Amazon Instance

amazonbundle.as

/*
* author Huber Flores
*/

# Upload your keys to your instance (*.pem files)
$ scp -i your_PrivateKeyFile.pem -r /PrivateKeysPath/huberfloresPrivateCertKeys.zip ubuntu@ec2-x-x-x-x.compute-1.amazonaws.com:/home/ubuntu/


# Connect to your instance (local keys)
$ ssh -i your_PrivateKeyFile.pem ubuntu@ec2-x-x-x-x.compute-1.amazonaws.com


$ sudo su

$ mkdir /mnt/img-mnt

# put cert.pem and *.pem in /mnt/img-mnt or another folder depending on the AMI

$ chmod 777 /mnt/img-mnt/

$ cd img-mnt/

# Bundle the image
$ ec2-bundle-vol -r i386 -d /mnt/ -p "myami" -u 111222333  -k /mnt/img-mnt/your_PrivateKeyFile.pem -c /mnt/img-mnt/your_PrivateKeyFile_cert.pem

# AmazonID is a long number. For example 111-222-333, you have to remove the hyphens 111222333

# issues that can emerged
# if fails due to limited space, then delete smt from disk
# also, this process will create an image in ./tmp/image, you have to delete it

# Notice that "-d /mnt" specifies the bundling point, thus this can solve the problem if /tmp has small space

	
Copying / into the image file /mnt/myami...
Excluding: 
         /sys/kernel/debug
         /sys/kernel/security
         /sys
         /proc
         /dev/pts
         /dev
         /dev
         /media
         /mnt
         /proc
         /sys
         /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
         /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules
         /mnt/myami
         /mnt/img-mnt
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.0098151 s, 107 MB/s
mke2fs 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
warning: Unable to get device geometry for /mnt/myami
Bundling image file...
Splitting /mnt/myami.tar.gz.enc...
Created myami.part.00
Created myami.part.01
Created myami.part.02
Created myami.part.03
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.
.
Creating bundle manifest...
ec2-bundle-vol complete.


# Upload to S3 (use the keys not the files)
$ ec2-upload-bundle -b MyInstanceBucket -m /mnt/myami.manifest.xml  -a AccessKey -s SecretKey

The specified bucket is not S3 v2 safe (see S3 documentation for details):
MyInstanceBucket
Are you sure you want to continue? [y/N]y
Uploading bundled image parts to the S3 bucket TNodeBucket ...
Uploaded myami.part.00
Uploaded myami.part.01
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.
.
Uploaded myami.part.90
Uploaded myami.part.91
Uploading manifest ...
Uploaded manifest.
Bundle upload completed.


# Register image
$ ec2-register MyInstanceBucket/myami.manifest.xml -n myinstance -K your_PrivateKeyFile.pem -C your_PrivateKeyFile_cert.pem

IMAGE	ami-cxxxxxab