Add RancherOS to Amazon AWS GovCloud

[msousley]

Would love to be able to use RancherOS from a community AMI in Amazon GovCloud.

Thanks!

[ibuildthecloud]

Time to learn more about GovCloud....

[wtsidney2016]

I've found a need for RancherOS in AWS GovCloud.

[msousley]

If you don't mind building your own AMI, this is how we went about it in GovCloud while waiting for Rancher to have an official image (all steps to be completed in your GovCloud account):

1. Log into EC2 and create an Ubuntu ec2 instance with docker installed (this can be removed once you are done)
    2. In EC2 create a new 8GB encrypted volume (can be unencrypted, but why?)
2. Attach that volume to the Ubuntu instance created in step 1
3. Log into the Ubuntu instance 
4. ls /dev to find what drive the volume in step 2 was mounted as (usual /dev/xvdf)
5. run sudo fdisk /dev/xvdf and partition the drive
	a. n
	b. p
	c. 1
	d. <enter>
	e. <enter>
	f. w
6. Run this to create the image
	a. docker run --privileged -it -v /home:/home -v /opt:/opt rancher/os:<version tag> -d /dev/xvdf -t amazon-ebs-hvm -c $(pwd)/cloud-config.yml
	b. If cloud-config.yml is missing, create one that looks like this:
		#cloud-config
		rancher:
			cloud_init:
				datasources:
					- ec2
7. Once done, go back into EC2 and un-attach volume
8. Create a snapshot of the volume
9. Create an AMI from snapshot
10. You are now ready to deploy RancherOS instances!!

[wtsidney2016]

Was able to create my own AMI - worked like a charm - Thank You.

Noticed there is a RancherOS in the GovCloud community AMI's:
ami-6caa100d, owned by 287102419086.

Anyone have any information about this AMI?

[msousley]

Glad it worked for you. I'm not sure who made that one, wasn't us.

[SvenDowideit]

I've been working on it ;) and yup, that's RancherOS v0.7.1 uploaded by me

[SvenDowideit]

mmm, GovCloud doesn't have ECS does it? (so I can remove that image..?)

[wtsidney2016]

Out Standing - Thank You Sven. I'm using rancheros-v0.8.0-hvm-1 (ami-927fc5f3) on GovCloud

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[SvenDowideit]

and released, so closing :)