Hey Ricardo, On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 8:01 AM, Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guix, > > I may need to provide Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) allowing the > execution of a Guix package on the Amazon compute services. > > There only seems to be a very convoluted way to produce AMIs from raw > virtual machine images[1], so I wonder if we could generate AMIs > directly with Guix. > > Has anyone of you played with this successfully? > > [1]: https://www.wavether.com/2016/11/import-qcow2-images-into-aws
I'm very interested in this, too, but haven't followed through with writing a script to do it. NixOps works on EC2 so I looked into how they do it, only to find that the NixOS developers generate a public base AMI whose id is stored in the NixOps code. Not the solution I was expecting. So I found the nixpkgs script that generates the base NixOS AMIs. Maybe reading it will help you: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/maintainers/scripts/ec2/create-amis.sh - Dave
