[Thincrust-devel] Versioning of Fedora appliances on EC2

[Marek Goldmann]

On Sep 18, 2009, at 4:35 AM, Cameron Ross wrote:

> Hello Thincrust list,
>
> I'm having some problems getting my custom thincrust appliance  
> working on EC2 (see post: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=36482&tstart=0 
> ).  I'm wondering if there is something fundamental that has to  
> happen to deploy an appliance based on newer versions of Fedora (see  
> this post http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=35626&tstart=15 
> ).  I've tried the thincrust AMIs that are listed on EC2, so it  
> appears that this is possible.  Is there something special I need to  
> consider in order to get a barebones Fedora 11 appliance deployed on  
> EC2?

You can take a look at JBoss Cloud [1] images (AMIs are on bottom of  
that page):

	http://oddthesis.org/theses/jboss-cloud/projects/jboss-cloud/pages/releases

All of them are Fedora 11 based with latest kernel that can be run on  
EC2 (2.6.21.7), both for 32 and 64 bit! You can launch for example  
postgis-appliance. This one is at least touched by us - it's almost  
base Fedora 11 + some packages:

   - postgresql
   - postgresql-server
   - postgis
   - jboss-cloud-management
   - jopr-agent

I think this is a good start point for your AMI.

[1] http://oddthesis.org/theses/jboss-cloud/projects/jboss-cloud

--Marek