Build AMI's with Packer

[mlococo]

The process of building ami's with the presetup code is complex and unnecessary. Packer handles this elegantly.

[mlococo]

Not doing the "preinstall cassandra from source" stuff in pre_2.py/install_software() because the cassandra build intermittently breaks per https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5543?focusedCommentId=14569419&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-14569419

This has no effect on core-functionality. It was just a convenience to speed up the ant run should anyone want to manually install cassandra from source on an AMI box.

[mlococo]

Work on this is happening in https://github.com/riptano/ComboAMI/tree/dev-2.6/build

[mlococo]

Couple test ami's built, currently available only to folks on the core-team:

==> Builds finished. The artifacts of successful builds are:
--> us-east-1-hvm-1204: AMIs were created: us-east-1: ami-abc62fc0
--> us-east-1-hvm-1404: AMIs were created: us-east-1: ami-adc62fc6
--> us-east-1-pv-1404: AMIs were created: us-east-1: ami-9fc62ff4
--> us-east-1-pv-1204: AMIs were created: us-east-1: ami-99c62ff2

[mlococo]

Public beta ami's built. eu-west-1 failed due thinking I have too many buckets (400). I did temporarily run out of buckets during testing, but deleted them, I think removals are just being slow to replicate to that region. Will try again later:

==> Builds finished. The artifacts of successful builds are:
--> ap-southeast-2-1404-pv: ami-e5463ddf
--> ap-southeast-1-1404-hvm: ami-f2a09aa0
--> us-west-2-1404-pv: ami-d55368e5
--> sa-east-1-1204-hvm: ami-25f77438
--> ap-northeast-1-1204-hvm: ami-18439a18
--> us-west-1-1404-hvm: ami-b156bcf5
--> us-west-2-1204-hvm: ami-f75368c7
--> ap-southeast-2-1204-hvm: ami-db463de1
--> us-east-1-1204-pv: ami-010afe6a
--> us-east-1-1404-hvm: ami-8109fdea
--> us-west-2-1204-pv: ami-e75368d7
--> ap-southeast-2-1204-pv: ami-21453e1b
--> us-west-2-1404-hvm: ami-fb5368cb
--> ap-southeast-2-1404-hvm: ami-d1463deb
--> us-east-1-1404-pv: ami-4d0afe26
--> us-east-1-1204-hvm: ami-b309fdd8
--> us-west-1-1404-pv: ami-5d57bd19
--> sa-east-1-1204-pv: ami-55f77448
--> ap-northeast-1-1204-pv: ami-0c429b0c
--> ap-southeast-1-1404-pv: ami-eaa09ab8
--> sa-east-1-1404-hvm: ami-5bf77446
--> ap-southeast-1-1204-hvm: ami-c4a09a96
--> us-west-1-1204-hvm: ami-b956bcfd
--> ap-northeast-1-1404-hvm: ami-2a439a2a
--> sa-east-1-1404-pv: ami-51f7744c
--> ap-southeast-1-1204-pv: ami-fca09aae
--> ap-northeast-1-1404-pv: ami-1c429b1c
--> us-west-1-1204-pv: ami-5f57bd1b

[mlococo]

Ok, deleted the previous public beta because I ran out of S3 buckets to test in. In the private beta builds, everything is looking good except this upstream Ubuntu bug which causes OpsCenter's free-disk metrics to break: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1465322

Looks like it's going to get fix quickly so will probably wait on that for the final bake.

[mlococo]

Upstream Ubuntu bug is finally fixed, this ticket can be wrapped up now: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1465322

Probably will be next week before I pick it up again.

[mlococo]

This was pushed out on Friday, last thing to do is update the default branch per #82

[mlococo]

See ami_ids.json in the 2.6 branch for the new AMI's or just search AWS community AMI's for "Datastax".