Migrate ec2 AMIs across regions
Registered by
Ahmed Kamal
Move ec2 ebs based AMI across different AWS reguins
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- Scott Moser
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Ahmed Kamal
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- New
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
Whiteboard
- You need to migrate an ebs boot ami across ec2 regions
- A tool needs to be written to run from a client machine to perform the migration. The tool needs to:
- Be written in Python
- Use ec2 API bindings (most likely boto)
- Spawn two utility instances in src and dest regions
- Attach the ebs volume to the src instance
- Create a blank new volume to dest instance, attach it to dest utility instance
- create filesystem on target volume
- copy filesystem label and UUID from source volume (tune2fs or xfs_admin)
- Start copying/rsyncing data from src vol/instance to destination vol/instance
- Snapshot target volume and register as AMI
- Terminate the two EBS instances and volumes
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