Redesigning fedimg, part 2: talking to AWS
In the previous post, I discussed what is fedimg and how it works currently. In this post, I plan to explain the issue in the current uploading process of the AMIs and how we plan to fix it. What’s the problem? fedimg boots an utility instance using the RHEL AMI configured for that region. The problem with this design is that while adding a new region we need to look for the appropriate RHEL AMI in the newer region first. Afterward, we need to test if fedimg works with the newer regions RHEL AMIs. Finally, if everything turns out to be okay we can go ahead with adding the AMI to the fedimg configuration. ...