This is a modification of the official Debian 10 Buster AMI with BCC and kernel headers pre-installed. It simplifies and speeds up the deployment of eBPF programs, like SBULB for instance ;)
Thanks to a Github Action, we track new Debian AMI releases and publish updated images automatically.
- installed packages: jq, linux-headers, python3-bpfcc. This saves at least 30s of boot time.
- kernel updates are disabled so that your BPF scripts can still run after a security update
- the motd displays the list of failed systemd units when you connect via SSH (similar to CoreOS)
- the images are optimized for ENA and SR-IOV (high performance networking)
So far the AMIs are only published on 2 zones: eu-west-1 and us-west-2. Only x86_64 is supported.
The images are named like this: debian-bcc-10-amd64-hvm-ebs-20200210-166.
You can find the latest release with this command:
aws ec2 describe-images --owners 018471812555 --region eu-west-1 \
--filters Name=name,Values=debian-bcc-* \
--query 'sort_by(Images, &CreationDate)[-1].[ImageId]' \
--output text