Jclouds 1.5 has a concept called TemplateBuilderSpec which allows you to
declare a String representation of TemplateBuilder mechanics.
This allows you to set a property to override the default templates used in
jclouds.
For ex.
aws-ec2.template=imageId=ami-foo,hardwareId=m1.large,locationId=eu-west-1
Importantly, these are just strings, so you can publish a series per
operating system family, and choose at runtime with
templateBuilder.from(spec)
Ex. You can make your own Map<String, TemplateBuilderSpec> with your
favorite choices, perhaps locking in templates by id so you don't have to
maintain the brittle java install scripts.
Ex.
templates.get("oneiric-java-ec2");
Regardless of how this is used, the important part is that the constant
complaints of automatic selection can now be over, as we can provide a
properties syntax to afford users a means to supply their preferences
declaratively.
I hope this helps,
-A
On May 29, 2012 5:39 AM, "Andrei Savu" <savu.and...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good to know. I guess we have yet another issue we need to fix related to
> automatic AMI selection.
> On May 29, 2012 3:35 PM, "Andrii Vozniuk" <and...@vozniuk.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Andrei,
> >
> > I suspect there is something strange happening with the Ubuntu
> > > repositories. Try
> > > setting the AMI ID.
> > >
> >
> > using whirr.image-id=us-east-1/ami-da0cf8b3 for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS worked
> for
> > me.
> >
> > --
> > Best regards
> > Andrii Vozniuk
> >
>
