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cloud-publish-image – publish a cloud image

Synopsis

cloud-publish-image [OPTIONS] ARCH IMAGE BUCKET

Options

-l|–add-launch <user_id>

user_id can be "all", or "none"

–dry-run

only report what would be done

–allow-existing

if a image is already registered simply report as if work was done

-o|–output <file>

write registered id and manifest to file

–rename <publish_path>

publish to bucket/<publish_path>, default: bucket/<basename(image)>

-t|–type <type>

type is one of kernel/ramdisk/image/auto. if type is ‘image’, then:
  -k | –kernel       k : use previously registered kernel with id ‘k’
                    specify ‘none’ for no kernel
  -K | –kernel-file  f : bundle, upload, use file ‘f’ as kernel
  -r | –ramdisk      r : use previously registered ramdisk with id ‘r’
                    specify ‘none’ for no ramdisk
  -R | –ramdisk-file f : bundle, upload, use file ‘f’ as ramdisk
  -B | –block-device-mapping m : specify block device mapping in bundle

–save-downloaded d

save the download image to directory ‘d’ (applicable only if TARBALL is an URL)

-v|–verbose

increase verbosity

–name <name>

Arguments

ARCH

Target architecture, one of i386 or x86_64

IMAGE

Target image to upload and register. If this is a URL, it will be downloaded.

BUCKET

Target bucket to publish the image to

Environment

Behavior of this program can be modified by environment variables as described below:

EC2PRE

Underlying tools will be invoked using this prefix. The default is ‘euca-‘, which results in using tools like ‘euca-register’ and ‘euca-bundle-image’. To use the ec2-api-tools or ec2-ami-tools, set EC2PRE=’ec2-‘

Description

Publish an image to a cloud

Author

This manpage was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland [at] canonical.com> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

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