Re: How are official EC2 images built?

On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 06:56:01AM +0000, Colin Percival wrote:
> On 3/5/23 18:15, Koichiro Iwao wrote:
> > Does anyone how offical EC2 images [1] are built?
> 
> They are built using the `make ec2ami` target in the src/release directory.
> That target builds a disk image and then converts it into an AMI using the
> bsdec2-image-upload utility (available in the ports tree).
> 
> > I mean if the build script is public.  I would like to create private
> > custom images with some customization based on official image.
> 
> I wrote about some of the options a few years ago:
> https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2018-12-26-the-many-ways-to-launch-FreeBSD-in-EC2.html
> 
> I'm guessing the AMI Builder option will best suit your need for "some
> customization" but if you need to make changes to the base system then
> you'll
> want to use `make ec2ami`.

Thanks, what I actually wanted to create is a qcow2 image with
cloud-init/firstboot enabled to be run by vm-bhyve, removing EC2-specific
stuffs from official EC2 images.  I'll try to make EC2 images next.

Anyway, it helps a lot. Thanks!

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