ec2: Build new Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy AMIs

[Eric Hammond]

The most recent Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy AMIs published by Canonical are from April 2009:

  # us-east-1 32-bit
  ami-5d59be34
  canonical-cloud-us/ubuntu-hardy-20090422-i386.manifest.xml

  # us-east-1 64-bit
  ami-2959be40
  canonical-cloud-us/ubuntu-hardy-20090422-amd64.manifest.xml

  # eu-west-1 32-bit
  ami-30c0e844
  canonical-cloud-eu/ubuntu-hardy-20090422-i386.manifest.xml

  # eu-west-1 64-bit
  ami-3ac0e84e
  canonical-cloud-eu/ubuntu-hardy-20090422-amd64.manifest.xml

A lot of bugs which were in these images have been fixed in the underlying packages (e.g., vm-builder, ec2-init) but in order for the fixes to be usable, a new Hardy AMI needs to be published.

I'm creating this ticket to track the creation of updated Hardy images.

[Eric Hammond (esh)]

In case it isn't implied, new AKIs (kernels) and ARIs (ramdisks) are also desired.

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

I just wanted to post some progress here. I have verified that the latest vmbuilder (trunk) and other relavant code pieces are able to build a hardy image. the instructions for doing so are in the attached.

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

updated copy and paste for hardy image build on ec2 instance.
This uses karmic beta, and removes any references to external patches.

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

I've got images built and uploaded to ec2, using the same build process that is used for the karmic builds. "Daily" builds of hardy are currently set up to occur twice a week [1]. For now this is early morning (GMT) on Monday and Thursday.

You can get AMI ids at [2] or [3].

I would like to get testing on these images. There are 3 bugs that we'd like to get fixed:
 - bug 308530 [ec2-init]: wait for metadata service before getting user data or using metadata service.
 - bug 420635 [kernel]: fix kernel for local privilege escalation
 - bug 421707 [landscape-client]: cron job is broken

We've got the first two of those fixed, and are waiting on the landscape-client fix.

If you are interested in using updated hardy images, please test the AMIs and give feedback.

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[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-on-ec2/vmbuilder/automated-ec2-builds/annotate/head%3A/crontab
[2] http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/hardy/
[3] http://thecloudmarket.com/search?search_term=ubuntu-hardy+daily

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

With some help from the landscape team, bug 421707 is now fixed and available in 20091112.1 builds.

As far as I can tell, then the 3 bugs listed above are in and ready to go. I'm planning on doing a final round of testing on 20091112.1 and publishing as an updated release to the 'ubuntu-hardy-20090422' releases that are there.

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

eu-west-1 ami-cf1932bb ubuntu-images-eu/ubuntu-hardy-8.04-amd64-server-20091130.manifest.xml
eu-west-1 ami-c31932b7 ubuntu-images-eu/ubuntu-hardy-8.04-i386-server-20091130.manifest.xml
us-east-1 ami-4428ca2d ubuntu-images-us/ubuntu-hardy-8.04-amd64-server-20091130.manifest.xml
us-east-1 ami-7e28ca17 ubuntu-images-us/ubuntu-hardy-8.04-i386-server-20091130.manifest.xml