System Image Recipes? / Admins

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Question asked ironfroggy

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womble
Create a single AMI image per distro, then use something like Puppet or Chef to do the package installation and system configuration you need to make the machine run however you need it to. This allows you to keep running machines updated automatically as you update your configurations, as well as ensure that every new machine you boot has a known good config state.
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Kurt
Use the VMware -> AMI conversion trick. Just run the VMware image, update it, convert it to an AMI image using QEMU tools (qemu-img convert) and presto.
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sascha
Have you looked at Ubuntu on EC2? There's a rather growing community on google groups that can probably give you some pointers on automated builds, etc.

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