_customImageCreateImage

The final step is to create an image from your customised instance. To do this, you will require the following information:

• Amazon Account Number
• Access Key ID
• Secret Access Key
• Amazon S3 bucket name that will be used to store image (if you don't have access to Amazon S3, you can sign up on this page.)

You can create an image of your customised instance by using the ec2-bundle-vol command, as follows:

/usr/local/bin/ec2-bundle-vol -c $EC2_CERT -k $EC2_PRIVATE_KEY -u <amazon_account_number> -p <elastic_image_name> --batch --debug

where <elastic_image_name> is the name that you want to assign to your custom image (e.g. 'CustomImage1')

Once the image is created, you need to upload it to Amazon S3 by running the command below:

/usr/local/bin/ec2-upload-bundle -b <s3_bucket_name> -m /tmp/<elastic_image_name>.manifest.xml -a <access_key_id> -s <secret_access_key> --retry --debug

where <s3_bucket_name>, <access_key_id> and <secret_access_key> are the Amazon S3 bucket name, Access Key ID and Secret Access Key described previously, and <elastic_image_name> is the name that you want to assign to your custom image (e.g. 'CustomImage1')

You will then need to register your image with Amazon EC2 by using the ec2-register command:

$EC2_HOME/bin/ec2-register <s3_bucket_name>/<elastic_image_name>.manifest.xml

where <s3_bucket_name> is the Amazon S3 bucket name described previously and <elastic_image_name> is the name that you want to assign to your custom image (e.g. 'CustomImage1')

The output of this command will show the AMI ID of your custom image.