On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:50 AM, James Bromberger <[email protected]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello all, > > It was already scheduled, and marked on the wiki for some months, but I am > going to remove the outdated 7.0.0 AMIs from being shared from the Debian > account tomorrow, 18 December 2014, and delete them shortly after. > > My plan is to sort out the 7.3 release (now that -- as per previous email -- > we have cloud-init running quickly) as priority. So let's review what AMIs > we have available now: > > * 6.0.7 - currently sitting there. Possibly we should update to 6.0.8, but I > haven't looked at it yet. > * 7.0.0 - already deprecated, and going to be removed tomorrow (marked as > private, and then deleted shortly thereafter). > * 7.1a - the last version that was pushed to the AWS Marketplace and deemed > as "ready" > * 7.2 - a testing release that included cloud-init, but never pushed to > marketplace because of the slowness (now resolved in 7.3 build with correct > cloud-init config) > * 7.3 - now in testing, and hopefully this week we'll consider this > "current" > > > > In short order after we consider 7.3 as "good", I will push this to AWS > Marketplace, and then declare 7.1a and 7.2 as deprecated and schedule them > for unsharing and then removal. > > > Note that if you are running any instance(s) from these older AMIs that the > instance(s) will continue to run unaffected. However, any Launch > Configurations and CloudFormation templates that reference these AMIs should > be updated. > > James
First, thanks for all your hard work cutting and managing these AMIs. Second, my apologies for the very late reply, as I'm just now catching up to old emails. What is our policy here? (Do we have one?) My view is that if at all possible, our eventual policy should be that we don't retire AMIs, but just make old ones harder to find. This would match expectations of EC2 users, particularly those who make heavy use of automated provisioning. I believe we're probably on the same page, and eventually planned to make these AMIs more persistent, but might be refraining until they had cloud-init and perhaps other essentials built in? -Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CACFaiRzN786v7Hk0q6aBnpwBq=tbamnhf6r-vjkjxdy2+nf...@mail.gmail.com
