On 27 January 2015 at 22:15, Tomasz Rybak <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dnia 2015-01-27, wto o godzinie 18:49 -0200, Jonh Wendell pisze: > > Hi folks. > > > > > > I'm using ec2 provider of the amazing bootstrap-vz tool to build an > > ebs-based ec2 image, but it stops at GetInstanceMetadata task. > > > > > > Is the build process supposed to run itself inside an aws instance? > > > > > Yes, you need to build AWS images inside AWS. > GetInstanceMetadata gets information about region, etc. > from inside of instance it's running on. > > > > > I'm building it on my own local machine in the hope it will be > > uploaded and transformed into an AMI, just like if I were using s3. > > > Image you build will be transformed into AMI, but from > inside region. > > > Hope that helps. > > > > -- > Tomasz Rybak GPG/PGP key ID: 2AD5 9860 > Fingerprint A481 824E 7DD3 9C0E C40A 488E C654 FB33 2AD5 9860 > http://member.acm.org/~tomaszrybak > > You can't connect an EBS volume to your local machine :-) If it were S3 you could bootstrap it locally, since this only requires a loopback volume. EBS backed instances are created from EBS snapshots. You're not the first one with this problem though, I created an issue <https://github.com/andsens/bootstrap-vz/issues/189> to change the code so it gives a better error message. Anders
