Debian Wheezy (7.0.x) on AWS
Under construction 4/May/2013
List of point releases published to the AWS Marketplace:
You may wish to use the CloudFormation template and launch your instance with some smart UserData scripts. For some releases you are free to choose the AWS Marketplace AMI, or the AMI that exists in the Debian AMI Account (account number 379101102735).
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 instances from this AMI as the user admin, and then sudo -i to gain root access.
Please note that a Marketplace image volume cannot be attached to another running instance (For example, to repair a broken /etc/fstab, or /etc/network/interfaces). This is a limitation of all Marketplace images, as described here: Official AWS documentation
7.0.0
These images were generated with the following script:
1 #!/bin/sh
2 apt-get update; apt-get install -y git; cd ~root; git clone https://github.com/andsens/build-debian-cloud.git; logger "Cloned" ; cd ~root/debian-build-cloud; export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/; export EC2_ACCESS_KEY='XXXX'; export EC2_SECRET_KEY='XXXX'; logger "Starting AMD64 build. Path = $PATH"; ./build-debian-cloud ec2 --volume-size 8 --filesystem ext4 --plugin plugins/admin-user --description 'Debian 7 (Wheezy)' --plugin plugins/publish-ami --plugin plugins/publish-snapshot --codename wheezy; logger "Starting i386 build"; ./build-debian-cloud ec2 --volume-size 8 --filesystem ext4 --plugin plugins/admin-user --description 'Debian 7 (Wheezy)' --arch i386 --plugin plugins/publish-ami --plugin plugins/publish-snapshot --codename wheezy; shutdown -h now
The full list of AMIs worldwide in the Debian AMI account are:
Virtualisation |
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64 bit |
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64 bit |
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US-East-1 |
ami-fbfc9192 |
ami-51ff9238 |
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US-West-1 |
ami-73311e36 |
ami-39311e7c |
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US-West-2 |
ami-b3990f83 |
ami-a9990f99 |
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EU-West-1 |
ami-f97a6c8d |
ami-977a6ce3 |
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AP-Southeast-1 |
ami-26a4eb74 |
ami-3ca4eb6e |
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AP-Southeast-2 |
ami-3775e50d |
ami-2975e513 |
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AP-Northeast-1 |
ami-ef31bdee |
ami-f531bdf4 |
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SA-East-1 |
ami-c62bf1db |
ami-fe2bf1e3 |
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All AMIs and their corresponding EBS snapshots are marked as public so can be inspected by any other AWS user.
AWS Marketplace Image Distribution
These images (above) were copied to the AWS Marketplace Account and then replicated to all AWS Marketplace-supported Regions, and became identifiable by the following list of AMI IDs:
Upgrading from previous 6.x.y releases
As is standard with Debian, a simple apt-get update && apt-get upgrade should bring all packages up to date. There is no need to reinstall, but any ?CloudFormation templates and ?AutoScale Launch Configurations should be tested with and then updated to use the current AMI. It is recommended not to use older point releases.
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" : "My-Key"
},
"MyInstanceSize": {
"Description": "Instance size",
"Type": "String",
"Default" : "t1.micro"
},
"MyInstanceName": {
"Description": "Instance name",
"Type": "String"
}
"RootVolType": {
"Description": "Root volume type",
"Type": "String",
"Default": "EBS"
}
},
"Mappings" : {
"Debian700-EBS-PVM-marketplace" : {
"us-east-1" : { "32" : "ami-", "64" : "ami-"},
"us-west-1" : { "32" : "ami-", "64" : "ami-"},
"us-west-2" : { "32" : "ami-", "64" : "ami-"},
"us-gov-west-1" : { "32" : "", "64" : ""},
"eu-west-1" : { "32" : "ami-", "64" : "ami-"},
"ap-southeast-1" : { "32" : "ami-", "64" : "ami-"},
"ap-southeast-2" : { "32" : "", "64" : ""},
"ap-northeast-1" : { "32" : "ami-", "64" : "ami-"},
"sa-east-1" : { "32" : "ami-", "64" : "ami-"},
},
"Debian700-Instance-PVM-marketplace" : {
"us-east-1" : { "32" : "ami-", "64" : "ami-"},
"us-west-1" : { "32" : "ami-", "64" : "ami-"},
"us-west-2" : { "32" : "ami-", "64" : "ami-"},
"us-gov-west-1" : { "32" : "", "64" : ""},
"eu-west-1" : { "32" : "ami-", "64" : "ami-"},
"ap-southeast-1" : { "32" : "ami-", "64" : "ami-"},
"ap-southeast-2" : { "32" : "ami-", "64" : "ami-"},
"ap-northeast-1" : { "32" : "ami-", "64" : "ami-"},
"sa-east-1" : { "32" : "ami-", "64" : "ami-"},
},
"release" : {
"stable" : { "squeeze" : "Debian700" }
}
},
"Resources" : {
"MyInstance" : {
"Type" : "AWS::EC2::Instance",
"Properties" : {
"SecurityGroups" : [ { "Ref" : "MySecurityGroup" } ],
"KeyName" : { "Ref": "KeyName" },
"Tags" : [{"Key": "Name", "Value": {"Ref" : "MyInstanceName"} } ],
"ImageId" : { "Fn::FindInMap" : [ "Debian700-marketplace", { "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:
See also Cloud and Teams/Cloud.