bootstrap-vz/bootstrapvz/providers/ec2/README.rst
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All provider specific settings have been moved to the
provider section. The image name itself is now located
at the top level and called "name". It is required for all providers.
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EC2
===
The `EC2 <http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/>`__ provider automatically creates
a volume for bootstrapping (be it EBS or S3), makes a snapshot of it
once it is done and registers it as an AMI. EBS volume backing only
works on an EC2 host while S3 backed volumes *should* work locally (at
this time however they do not, a fix is in the works).
Unless `the cloud-init plugin <../../plugins/cloud_init>`__
is used, special startup scripts will be installed that automatically fetch the
configured authorized\_key from the instance metadata and save or run
any userdata supplied (if the userdata begins with ``#!`` it will be
run). Set the variable ``install_init_scripts`` to ``False`` in order
to disable this behaviour.
Manifest settings
-----------------
Credentials
~~~~~~~~~~~
The AWS credentials can be configured in two ways: Via the manifest or
through environment variables. To bootstrap S3 backed instances you will
need a user certificate and a private key in addition to the access key
and secret key, which are needed for bootstraping EBS backed instances.
The settings describes below should be placed in the ``credentials`` key
under the ``provider`` section.
- ``access-key``: AWS access-key.
May also be supplied via the environment variable
``$AWS_ACCESS_KEY``
``required for EBS & S3 backing``
- ``secret-key``: AWS secret-key.
May also be supplied via the environment variable
``$AWS_SECRET_KEY``
``required for EBS & S3 backing``
- ``certificate``: Path to the AWS user certificate. Used for
uploading the image to an S3 bucket.
May also be supplied via the environment variable
``$AWS_CERTIFICATE``
``required for S3 backing``
- ``private-key``: Path to the AWS private key. Used for uploading
the image to an S3 bucket.
May also be supplied via the environment variable
``$AWS_PRIVATE_KEY``
``required for S3 backing``
- ``user-id``: AWS user ID. Used for uploading the image to an S3
bucket.
May also be supplied via the environment variable ``$AWS_USER_ID``
``required for S3 backing``
Example:
.. code:: yaml
---
provider:
name: ec2
credentials:
access-key: AFAKEACCESSKEYFORAWS
secret-key: thes3cr3tkeyf0ryourawsaccount/FS4d8Qdva
Virtualization
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EC2 supports both paravirtual and hardware virtual machines.
The virtualization type determines various factors about the
virtual machine performance (read more about this `in the EC2 docs`__).
__ http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/virtualization_types.html
- ``virtualization``: The virtualization type
Valid values: ``pvm``, ``hvm``
``required``
Example:
.. code:: yaml
---
provider:
name: ec2
virtualization: hvm
Enhanced networking
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Install enhanced networking drivers to take advantage of SR-IOV
capabilities on hardware virtual machines.
Read more about this in `the EC2 docs`__.
__ http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/enhanced-networking.html
Example:
.. code:: yaml
---
provider:
name: ec2
virtualization: hvm
enhanced_networking: simple
Image
~~~~~
- ``description``: Description of the AMI.
``manifest vars``
- ``bucket``: When bootstrapping an S3 backed image, this
will be the bucket where the image is uploaded to.
``required for S3 backing``
- ``region``: Region in which the AMI should be registered.
``required for S3 backing``
Example:
.. code:: yaml
---
provider:
name: ec2
description: Debian {system.release} {system.architecture}
bucket: debian-amis
region: us-west-1
Dependencies
------------
To communicate with the AWS API `boto <https://github.com/boto/boto>`__
is required (version 2.14.0 or higher) you can install boto with
``pip install boto`` (on wheezy, the packaged version is too low). S3
images are chopped up and uploaded using
`euca2ools <https://github.com/eucalyptus/euca2ools>`__ (install with
``apt-get install euca2ools``).