distami 0.9.8

Distribute Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) to the public

Distributes an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) by making it public in multiple regions

Usage

usage: distami [-h] [--region REGION] [--to REGIONS] [--non-public] [-p] [-v]
               [--version]
               AMI_ID

Distributes an AMI by copying it to one, many, or all AWS regions, and by
optionally making the AMIs and Snapshots public.

positional arguments:
  AMI_ID           the source AMI ID to distribute. E.g. ami-1234abcd

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  --region REGION  the region the AMI is in (default is current region of EC2
                   instance this is running on). E.g. us-east-1
  --to REGIONS     comma-separated list of regions to copy the AMI to. The
                   default is all regions. E.g. us-east-1,us-west-1,us-west-2
  --non-public     Copies the AMIs to other regions, but does not make the
                   AMIs or snapshots public. Bad karma, but good for AMIs that
                   need to be private/internal only
  -p, --parallel   Perform each copy to another region in parallel. The
                   default is in serial which can take a long time
  -v, --verbose    enable verbose output (-vvv for more)
  --version        display version number and exit

Examples

Copy an AMI to all regions in parallel from an EC2 instance such as Aminator:

distami -p ami-abcd1234

Copy AMI in us-east-1 to us-west-1

distribute --region us-east-1 ami-abcd1234 --to us-west-1

Copy an AMI in eu-west-1 to us-west-1 and us-west-2, but do not make the AMI or its copies public

distribute --region eu-west-1 ami-abcd1234 --to us-west-1,us-west-2 --non-public

Installation

You can install DistAMI using the usual PyPI channels. Example:

sudo pip install distami

You can find the package details here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/distami

Alternatively, if you prefer to install from source:

git clone [e-mail]:Answers4AWS/distami.git
cd distami
python setup.py install

Source Code

The Python source code for DistAMI is available on GitHub:

https://github.com/Answers4AWS/distami

About Answers for AWS

This code was written by Peter Sankauskas, founder of Answers for AWS - a company focused on helping business get the most out of AWS. If you are looking for help with AWS, please contact us.

LICENSE

Copyright 2013 Answers for AWS LLC

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

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