Petter,

I appreciate your feedback.

BoxGrinder works well as do puppet and chef.  Some researchers prefer to start with a static image, install packages manually and then snapshot to create a frequently used template.  I also intended this AMI to be used by anyone who is simply curious about Scientific Linux vs. CentOS or other Linux distributions.

Warm regards,

Jamie Kinney
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On May 3, 2012, at 2:11 AM, Petter Olsson wrote:

Hi,

Static AMI's seems useful for people who just want to try something
out. Personally the Boxgrinder project is what I use to create new
AMI's.

Thanks
Petter

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Corey Quinn <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:

On May 3, 2012, at 1:56 AM, Jamie Kinney wrote:

I have created a Scientific Linux 6.2 x86_64 Amazon EC2 machine image (AMI) and would welcome
your feedback.  The AMI currently resides in the us-east-1 (Northern Virginia) Amazon EC2 region.
If there is enough interest, I could easily publish this AMI to all AWS regions.

The AMI is ami-e2a0058b.

https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1#launchAmi=ami-e2a0058b

Feel free to contact me directly with any questions/comments.

Thanks for doing this.

[root@ip-10-196-57-7 ec2-user]# rpm -qa |wc -l
622

Looks a bit heavy from my side-- most instances I tend to spin up hover between 200-300 packages installed.  Is this by design?

I guess my real question becomes "What's the intended use case for this AMI?"

-- Corey



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