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How to provision VMWare compatible .ova images on EC2

EC2 only lets you export instances as VMWare-compatible OVA files if you originally imported that instance from an OVA. Presumably it preserves the metadata and XML gubbins for the instance, and just wraps it up again using that metadata on export.

In order to provision arbitrary VMs in an OVA-exportable way, we abuse the volume snapshots on one VM.

Prep work:

• Make a fresh install of ubuntu server or whatever your base distro is, in VMWare, export as OVA file. (single disk only!)
• Untar the OVA and import the VMDK file into ec2 using ec2-instance-import onto an HVM instance type (ie, no xen kernel needed)

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{
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "PackerSecurityGroupAccess",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup",
                "ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup",
                "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
                "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
                "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupIngress"

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node.default['java']['install_flavor'] = 'oracle' # ugh
node.default['java']['jdk_version'] = '7'
node.default['java']['accept_license_agreement'] = true
node.default['java']['oracle']['accept_oracle_download_terms'] = true

## Mission: install oracle's java, because cassandra prefers it.
##
## Problem: esl-erlang depends on "default-jre-headless" (openjdk)
##          but that conflicts with oracle's java packages, so we can't
##          just remove openjdk, as it takes esl-erlang with it.

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gulp.task('flatten-js', function() {
  return gulp.src(['app/*.js', './app/**/*.js'])
    .pipe(flatten())
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./build/js-app'))
});

function bundleEntryPoint(entryfile) {
    process.env.NODE_PATH = ( process.env.NODE_PATH ?
                               process.env.NODE_PATH + ':' : '')
                            + './build/js-app/'

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as root:
 
apt-get install slapd ldap-utils cpu
 
edit, /etc/cpu/cpu.conf replace these lines:
 
LDAP_URI                = ldap://localhost
BIND_DN                 = cn=admin,dc=nodomain
BIND_PASS               = irccloud
USER_BASE               = dc=nodomain

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• I am RJ on github.
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To claim this, I am signing this object:

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#!/usr/bin/env python
import socket
import sys

## ipv6.google.com:
PING_TARGET = '2604:8300:100:200b:6667:3:0:4d1f'

source_ip = sys.argv[1]
addresses = [addr for addr in socket.getaddrinfo(source_ip, None) if socket.AF_INET6 == addr[0]]
src_address = addresses[0][-1][0]

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APPDIRS := $(wildcard apps/*)

## Example hack to filter one out: 
## APPDIRS := $(filter-out apps/fooapp, $(APPDIRS))

define PROXY_TARGET
$(1):
  $(foreach appdir,$(APPDIRS),$(MAKE) -C $(appdir) $(1) ;)
endef

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## GENERATED BY CHEF, DONT EDIT DIRECTLY
global
  log  127.0.0.1  local0
  log  127.0.0.1  local1 notice
  maxconn  10000
  user haproxy
  daemon

defaults
  log   global

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config defaultToCurrentScreen true
config nudgePercentOf screenSize
config resizePercentOf screenSize

# Shows app icons and background apps, spreads icons in the same place.
config windowHintsShowIcons true
config windowHintsIgnoreHiddenWindows false
config windowHintsSpread true
config windowHintsBackgroundColor 50;53;58;0.6