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Copy an EBS AMI image to another Amazon EC2 Region

Since I’ve already created an image I liked in the us-west-1 region, I would like to reuse it in other regions. Turns out there is no mechanism within Amazon EC2 to do that. (See How do I launch an Amazon EBS volume from a snapshot across Regions?). I did find one post that talked a [...]

Updating an Amazon EC2 EBS Boot AMI

Introduction

Well there is already an update to Chef’s Ohai library. At first I thought, “Oh no, I have to generate another EC2 image”. But then I remember reading that you can update and clone a running EBS boot image.

One of the cool features of using an Amazon EC2 instance that boots from an EBS Snapshot [...]

Using the Official Opscode 0.8.x Gems to build EC2 AMI Chef Client and Server

Updates

Mar 3, 2010 Added call to script ec2-set-defaults that is normally called on ec2 init that sets the locale and apt sources for EC availability Zone

Introduction

Opscode has officially released 0.8.x of Chef. It is now even more fabulous. I’ve been using the pre-release version for the last couple of months and it is rock steady [...]

Upstart Documentation Secret Hiding Place

To quote the Upstart home page:

is an event-based replacement for theĀ /sbin/init daemon which handles starting of tasks and services duringboot, stopping them during shutdown and supervising them while the system is running.

One would think that the best place to find the current documentation on Upstart would be its home page and/or the Upstart Wiki. But [...]