AWS AMI WITH FAI

This repository aims to build Debian images for aws cloud provider.

Getting started

You will need a checkout of this repository on your disk and a recent fai-server package (at least 5.7) installed. Install the necessary fai packages without the recommends (which avoids turning your host into a DHCP server!). You also need python3-libcloud from Buster or newer.

  # git clone https://github.com/fti-sfuke/aws_ami_with_fai.git
  # sudo apt install --no-install-recommends ca-certificates debsums dosfstools \
    fai-server fai-setup-storage fdisk make python3 python3-libcloud python3-marshmallow \
    python3-pytest python3-yaml qemu-utils udev

Call make help and follow the instructions

Example 1:

   # make image_bookworm_awsloud_amd64

This will create some log output and the following files:

• image_bookworm_awsloud_amd64.build.json
• image_bookworm_awsloud_amd64.info
• image_bookworm_awsloud_amd64.raw
• image_bookworm_awsloud_amd64.tar

These images can be used with AWS EC2.

Supported image type

As shown above, various types of images can be built for different use cases. Each type of image can be built with the following command:

    # make image_<suite>_<type>_<arch>

where <suite> is one of buster, bullseye, or sid. <type> can be any of the following:

• ec2: Optimized for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Documentation

• Details about creating images
• https://fai-project.org/fai-guide/