AMI Creation Notes

Baseline Initial AMI Creation

baseline instance is an ubuntu

aws ec2 describe-instances
aws ec2 run-instances --image-id ami-f6b11181 --count 1 --instance-type m3.medium --key-name MyKeyPair --security-groups KB+ --key KBPlus

See: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineReference/ApiReference-cmd-RunInstances.html

Connect to new instance and

apt-get install puppet puppet-module-puppetlabs-apt git

puppet apply -v KBPLUS/conf-hints/puppet/baseline.pp


# create new launch config
as-create-launch-config kbplus_4_0_0 \
    --image-id 'ami-xxxxxxxx' --instance-type m1.small \
    --group web,asg-www --user-data "..."

# update my asg to use new config
as-update-auto-scaling-group www-asg --launch-configuration kbplus_4_0_0