March 2008
Intermediate to advanced
604 pages
18h 38m
English
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Registering an AMI
Once your AMI files have been uploaded to S3, the last step necessary to make your own AMI ready for use is to register it. The registration step tells the EC2 service where to find the image’s manifest file and, through this, all the other image files.
You can register your AMI using the RegisterImage API method described in Managing and Sharing AMIs” in Chapter 5,
or you can use the ec2-register
command provided with Amazon’s tools. To use the API method, you would
run the following commands in interactive Ruby:
irb> require 'EC2'
irb> ec2 = EC2.new
irb> ec2.register_image('TargetBucketName/my-ami-filename.img.manifest.xml')When you register your image, the service will respond with the
identifier assigned to your AMI. This identifier will also appear in the
list provided by the DescribeImages API action. To make it easier to find your
AMI in the images listing, use the value self in the image owners filter to display
only your own images.
irb> ec2.describe_images(:owners => 'self')
Once your AMI is registered, you will be able to start instances based on this image, complete with all the changes you have applied.
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