EC2 AMIs will be available from snapshot builds

[Steve Wills]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 04:03:40PM +0000, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 01:46:22PM +0000, Steve Wills wrote:
> > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 03:33:52PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> > > Hi cloudy people,
> > > 
> > > I've walked Glen through using my EC2 AMI-building additions to the release
> > > code, and he has successfully built AMIs for the latest 11-CURRENT and
> > > 10-STABLE snapshots -- so with luck, there should be weekly(ish) AMIs made
> > > available in the future.
> > 
> > Did this happen? If so, where can I find the images? Looking in the public
> > images list on Amazon, I see for example ami-79bf5512 which looks like the
> > latest snapshot, but there's nothing indicating who created it, so I'm
> > uncertain.
> > 
> 
> Yes, this did happen.  The AMIs are now auto-published as a part of the
> weekly snapshot builds.  These are announced on the -snapshots@ list,
> but this past week's builds were not announced (nor published), except
> the AMIs, since there were a few things that were being fixed on a day
> after day basis, and I didn't get a chance to do a rebuild before
> leaving BSDCan.  New builds will be available either today or tomorrow,
> once I have a chance to update a few configuration files and do a few
> MFCs.

I tried both the ami-67866a0c and ami-ccb6a7a4, but while both came up and
passed both the status checks according to Amazon, I couldn't ssh into either.
The system log reported "Fetching EC2 user-data failed." at the end.

Anyone have any ideas?

Steve