boot-candidate-instance.sh

VOLUME_ID=$(cat /tmp/staging-volume)
ec2-detach-volume ${VOLUME_ID}

# Detach
while [[ $(ec2-describe-volumes $VOLUME_ID | cut -f 6) != 'available' ]] ; do
  echo "waiting...."
done

# Snapshot and create AMI
SNAPSHOT_ID=$(ec2-create-snapshot ${VOLUME_ID} | cut -f 2)
echo ${SNAPSHOT_ID} > /tmp/ami-snapshot

while [[ $(ec2-describe-snapshots ${SNAPSHOT_ID} | cut -f 4) != 'completed' ]] ; do 
  echo 'waiting for snapshot' 
done

# Register
AKI="aki-3d990e07"
AMI_ID=$(ec2-register --name "Snapshot"$(date +'%y%m%d%H%M%S') --architecture x86_64 --kernel ${AKI} --root-device-name /dev/sda2 -s ${SNAPSHOT_ID} | cut -f 2)
echo ${AMI_ID} > /tmp/ami-id

ec2-describe-image ${AMI_ID}
while [[ $(ec2-describe-images ${AMI_ID} | awk '$1 == "IMAGE" { print $5 }') != 'available' ]] ; do
  echo 'waiting for image to become available'
done

echo "booting image"
INSTANCE_ID=$(ec2-run-instances ${AMI_ID} | awk '$1 == "INSTANCE" { print $2 }')
echo ${INSTANCE_ID} > /tmp/instance-id

ec2-get-console-output ${INSTANCE_ID}