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Arian van Putten a48cd7d56f nixos/amazon-image: Drop create-amis.sh script and update docs 
We replaced this with automation in https://github.com/NixOS/amis

Also add some docs how you can build the image yourself
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Amazon images

AMIs are regularly uploaded from Hydra. This automation lives in https://github.com/NixOS/amis

How to upload an AMI for testing

If you want to upload an AMI from changes in a local nixpkgs checkout.

nix-build nixos/release.nix -A amazonImage

export AWS_REGION=us-west-2
export AWS_PROFILE=my-profile
nix run nixpkgs#upload-ami -- --image-info ./result/nix-support/image-info.json

How to build your own NixOS config into an AMI

I suggest looking at https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators for a user-friendly interface.

nixos-generate -c ./my-config.nix -f amazon

export AWS_REGION=us-west-2
export AWS_PROFILE=my-profile
nix run github:NixOS/amis#upload-ami -- --image-info ./result/nix-support/image-info.json

Roadmap

  • @arianvp is planning to drop zfs support unless someone else picks it up
  • @arianvp is planning to rewrite the image builder to use the repart-based image builder.
  • @arianvp is planning to perhaps rewrite upload-ami to use coldnsap
  • @arianvp is planning to move upload-ami tooling into nixpkgs once it has stabilized. And only keep the Github Action in separate repo