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Prerequisites

  1. You will need to install aws cli and configure your AWS account using the aws configure command.

    $ aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [********************]:
AWS Secret Access Key [*******************]:
Default region name [us-east-1]:
Default output format [json]:

  2. Download the IBM Spectrum Scale Data Management Edition install package (from Fix Central) and upload gpfs_rpms to s3 bucket.

    Example (Contents of the bucket should look like below for rhel8 AMI):

    $ aws s3 ls s3://scalebucket
2021-07-02 15:22:59        907 SpectrumScale_public_key.pgp
2021-07-02 15:22:27      38080 gpfs.adv-5.1.1-0.x86_64.rpm
2021-07-02 15:22:24   22115584 gpfs.base-5.1.1-0.x86_64.rpm
2021-07-02 15:22:34      41864 gpfs.compression-5.1.1-0.x86_64.rpm
2021-07-02 15:22:35     271500 gpfs.crypto-5.1.1-0.x86_64.rpm
2021-07-02 15:22:37     505356 gpfs.docs-5.1.1-0.noarch.rpm
2021-07-02 15:22:39     595904 gpfs.gpl-5.1.1-0.noarch.rpm
2021-07-02 15:22:47    9468992 gpfs.gskit-8.0.55-19.x86_64.rpm
2021-07-02 15:22:51     458688 gpfs.gss.pmcollector-5.1.1-0.el8.x86_64.rpm
2021-07-02 15:22:54     440664 gpfs.gss.pmsensors-5.1.1-0.el8.x86_64.rpm
2021-07-02 15:22:25   92688689 gpfs.gui-5.1.1-0.noarch.rpm
2021-07-02 15:22:25   41686244 gpfs.java-5.1.1-0.x86_64.rpm
2021-07-02 15:22:55       4252 gpfs.license.dm-5.1.1-0.x86_64.rpm
2021-07-02 15:22:57     178376 gpfs.msg.en_US-5.1.1-0.noarch.rpm

  3. Download a pre-built Packer binary for your operating system.

Create AWS (packer) AMI

The below steps will provision AWS EC2 instance, install IBM Spectrum Scale rpm's and creates a new AMI.

  1. Change working directory to packer_templates/aws/.

    cd ibm-spectrum-scale-cloud-install/packer_templates/aws/

  2. Create packer variable definitions file (inputs.auto.pkrvars.hcl) and provide infrastructure inputs.

    Minimal Example:

    cat <<EOF > inputs.auto.pkrvars.hcl
vpc_id                  = "vpc-0df33b2a861b63118"     // An existing vpc id
vpc_subnet_id           = "subnet-0992d8e9ce397dac3"  // Existing subnet id
vpc_region              = "us-east-1"
vpc_security_group_id   = "sg-0cbcfe43d939c6069"      // Existing security group (make sure it has inbound port 22 opened
ami_name                = "spectrumscale"
ami_description         = "IBM Spectrum Scale AMI"
instance_type           = "t2.medium"
source_ami_id           = "ami-0b0af3577fe5e3532"     // Soure AMI-ID (for stock rhel image id's, refer to https://access.redhat.com/solutions/15356).
s3_spectrumscale_bucket = "scalebucket"               // S3 bucket that contains gpfs/scale rpm's.
volume_size             = "200"
volume_type             = "gp2"
EOF

  3. Run packer init .; packer build . to create AMI.

Inputs

Name Description Type Default Required
ami_description The description to set for the resulting AMI. string "IBM Spectrum Scale AMI" no
ami_name The name of the resulting AMI. To make this unique, timestamp will be appended. string n/a yes
instance_type The EC2 instance type to use while building the AMI. string n/a yes
s3_spectrumscale_bucket S3 bucket which contains IBM Spectrum Scale rpm(s). string n/a yes
source_ami_id The source AMI id whose root volume will be copied and provisioned on the currently running instance. string n/a yes
volume_size The size of the volume, in GiB. string "200" no
volume_type The volume type. gp2 & gp3 for General Purpose (SSD) volumes. string "gp2" no
vpc_id The VPC id you want to use for building AMI. string n/a yes
vpc_region The region where AWS operations will take place. Examples are us-east-1, us-west-2, etc. string n/a yes
vpc_security_group_id The security group id to assign to the instance, you must be sure the security group allows access to the ssh port. string n/a yes
vpc_subnet_id The subnet ID to use for the instance. string n/a yes