Re: How are official EC2 images built?

Thanks for the quick response! Both are definitely useful.

On Sun, Mar 05, 2023 at 06:30:40PM -0800, Pat Maddox wrote:
> https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/release/Makefile.ec2
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> https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/release/tools/ec2.conf
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> I have opted to build images a bit differently, not using the stuff in src/release. I’ve done two approaches.
> 
> The first is to attach a second disk to an EC2 instance, install FreeBSD onto it with customizations, and then image the disk (https://gist.github.com/patmaddox/9f20edcb50ff15fa9edd1d4e38d07e50).
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> The way I’m doing it now is to use poudriere to make an img file, and then upload that image to S3, snapshot it (aws ec2 import-snapshot –disk-container Format=raw,Url=s3://mybucket/myimage.img) and finally make an AMI from that snapshot.
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> The stuff in src/release is good for knowing what changes to make to config files, or packages to install.
> 
> Pat
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> On Sun, Mar 5, 2023, at 6:15 PM, Koichiro Iwao wrote:
> > Hi, 
> >
> > Does anyone how offical EC2 images [1] are built?
> > I mean if the build script is public.  I would like to create private
> > custom images with some customization based on official image.
> >
> > [1] 
> > https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile?id=92bb514d-02bc-49fd-9727-c474863f63da&ref=dtl_prodview-ukzmy5dzc6nbq
> >
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