1184177 - Investigate unreachable 2008 cloud tools generated EC2 instances

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations :: RelOps: General, task)

Comment 1

[Amy Rich [:arr] [:arich]]

There was some discussion about this today, and Q thinks that it may boil down to the fact that we're running sysprep when we shut down the instance. :grenade was going to look at disabling this, since it's also causing problems with hostnaming as well. The docs are spotty on how to shutdown without sysprep except form the GUI, but it seems to be set in bundleclone.xml:

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=410762

Comment 2

[Amy Rich [:arr] [:arich]]

Now that we have cron generating the golden AMIs, it's critical that they're producing valid instances.

Comment 3

[Rob Thijssen [:grenade (EET/UTC+0300)]]

instances are definitely reachable now via internal ip.
when launching from ec2 console, care must be taken in the selection of vpc, availability zone, security group, subnet (match zone: 1a, 1d, etc). values should match cloud-tools/configs/(b|y)-2008
cloud-tools does all this automatically but when done manually, it's a royal pita because any mistakes and you start from scratch. console remembers nothing.