Squeeze on AWS

List of point release images published to the AWS Marketplace:

You may wish to use the CloudFormation template and launch your instance with some smart UserData scripts.


6.0.6

This image was created on 15/Nov/2012 by James Bromberger using the ec2debian-build-ami from https://github.com/andsens/ec2debian-build-ami by Anders Ingemann. The original images were generated in account 379101102735, and the images were identifiable in the AWS US-East-1 Region as:

SSH username

In line with the security of most Linux distributions on Amazon Web Services, remote root SSH is disabled (as is password authentication). You will need to connect to instancs from this AMI as the user admin, and then sudo -i to gain root access.

These two AMIs are made of corresponding AWS EBS Snapshots. These snapshots have been made available for you to download, should you wish to (you do not need to do this to use the AMI on AWS):

Architecture

AMI ID

Snap ID

URL (gunzip this object after download)

Uncompressed md5sum

i386

ami-7a29ad1

snap-857749cc

https://s3.amazonaws.com/debian-images/AWS/Squeeze/6.0.6/snap-857749cc-debian-6.0.6-i386.img.gz

eb89515316cf478811bbd20357bd3145

amd64

ami-202aae49

snap-4adbe503

https://s3.amazonaws.com/debian-images/AWS/Squeeze/6.0.6/snap-4adbe503-debian-6.0.6-amd64.img.gz

3e55f08d9fa929512641420ec1282d64

These images where generated with the following script:

apt-get update; apt-get install -y git; cd ~root; git clone https://github.com/andsens/ec2debian-build-ami.git; cd ~root/ec2debian-build-ami; export EC2_URL=https://ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/; export EC2_ACCESS_KEY='''XXXX'''; export EC2_SECRET_KEY='''XXXX'''; ./ec2debian-build-ami --volume-size 8 --filesystem ext4 --plugin plugins/admin-user --description 'Debian 6.0.6 (Squeeze)'; ./ec2debian-build-ami --volume-size 8 --filesystem ext4 --plugin plugins/admin-user --description 'Debian 6.0.6 (Squeeze)' --arch i386; shutdown -h now

These images were replicated to all AWS Regions and became identifiable by the following list of AMI IDs:

Region

32-bit

64-bit

US-East-1

US-West-1

US-West-2

US-Gov-West-1

EU-West-1

AP-Northeast-1

AP-Southeast-1

AP-Southeast-2

SA-East-1

The image performs the following tasks:

The image by default makes no contact to any external servers (no updates applied, no outbound requests, no data leakage).


CloudFormation Template

CloudFormation is a templating system for defining AWS resources - see http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/

{
        "Parameters" : {
                "KeyName" : {
                        "Description" : "SSH Key Name",
                        "Type" : "String",
                        "Default" : "James-Amazon-Laptop"
                },
                "MyInstanceSize": {
                        "Description": "Instance size",
                        "Type": "String",
                        "Default" : "t1.micro"
                },
                "MyInstanceName": {
                        "Description": "Instance name",
                        "Type": "String"
                }
        },
        "Mappings" : {
            "Debian606" : { 
                "us-east-1" :      { "32" : "", "64" : ""},
                "us-west-1" :      { "32" : "", "64" : ""},
                "us-west-2" :      { "32" : "", "64" : ""},
                "us-gov-west-1" :  { "32" : "", "64" : ""},
                "eu-west-1" :      { "32" : "", "64" : ""},
                "ap-southeast-1" : { "32" : "", "64" : ""},
                "ap-southeast-2" : { "32" : "", "64" : ""},
                "ap-northeast-1" : { "32" : "", "64" : ""},
                "sa-east-1" :      { "32" : "", "64" : ""},
            },
            "release" : {
                "stable" : { "squeeze" : "Debian606" }
            }
        },
        "Resources" : {
                "MyInstance" : {
                        "Type" : "AWS::EC2::Instance",
                        "Properties" : {
                                "SecurityGroups" : [ { "Ref" : "MySecurityGroup" } ],
                                "KeyName" : { "Ref": "KeyName" },
                                "Tags" : [{"Key": "Name", "Value": {"Ref" : "MyInstanceName"} } ],
                                "ImageId" : { "Fn::FindInMap" : [ "Debian606",  { "Ref" : "AWS::Region" }, "64"  ]},
                                "InstanceType" : { "Ref" : "MyInstanceSize" },
                                "UserData" : { "Fn::Base64" : "" }
                        }
                },
                "MySecurityGroup" : {
                        "Type" : "AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup",
                        "Properties" : {
                                "GroupDescription" : "Permit inbound SSH",
                                "SecurityGroupIngress" : [ 
                                    {
                                        "IpProtocol" : "tcp",
                                        "FromPort" : "22",
                                        "ToPort" : "22",
                                        "CidrIp" : "0.0.0.0/0"
                                    }
                                ]
                        }
                }
        }
}

Suggested UserData scripts

The image by default takes no actions upon boot, and does not auto-update. However, as the Debian image does honour executing UserData meta-data that looks like a script (started with #!/bin/sh), you may optionally chose to take some action. This action can be passed as a script in the AWS Console UserData input, or in the above CloudFormation template to an instance (see the UserData section in the example above).

You can chose to enable auto update with the following UserData scripts:

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get install -y unattended-upgrades