Snappy ec2 getting started - various issues

[Michael Nelson]

A few issues I noted while following the ec2 snappy instructions at:

https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/start/#snappy-amazon

1) import-keypair: the instructions say:

$ ec2-import-keypair -f ~/.ssh/snappy-rsa snappy-key

This will attempt to upload the newly created *private* key (and fail).

I believe it should be:

$ ec2-import-keypair -f ~/.ssh/snappy-rsa.pub snappy-key

2) Down the page, for consistency when referring to the generated key, I think:

$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/ec2-rsa ubuntu@<PUBLIC DNS>

should be

$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/snappy-rsa ubuntu@<PUBLIC DNS>

3) When choosing an image to run, the instructions say to do:

$ ec2-describe-images \
      -o 099720109477 \
      | grep ubuntu-core

but that only shows alpha and devel images:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/11215934/

Those seem to be out-of-date. After running devel, sshing in and trying to follow:

https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/tutorials/using-snappy/

I can't do 'snappy list' (but can do 'snappy versions', which seems similar). If I try to update-versions, after downloading 146, it sits applying for > 10mins.

http://paste.ubuntu.com/11215937/

Are there newer images for aws?

[Robert C Jennings (rcj)]

Issues #1 & #2 have good

#1 resolution is correct:
$ ec2-import-keypair -f ~/.ssh/snappy-rsa.pub snappy-key

#2 suggested resolution is correct:
$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/snappy-rsa ubuntu@<PUBLIC DNS>

#3 should be:
$ ec2-describe-images -o 099720109477 | grep Snappy

[Robert C Jennings (rcj)]

Assigned to David to update the docs per comment #1. (Ignore that first sentence I started to write and then abandoned... "have good") :)

[David Callé (davidc3)]

Thanks Michael for pointing it out, and Robert for the fix.