Kiln

A gem for automating the creation of EC2 AMIs

Installation

gem install kiln

or add to your Gemfile

source "https://rubygems.org"

gem "kiln", "~> 1.0.0"

Usage

kiln-create-ami <AMI class name>

Creates an AMI using the specified AMI template e.g.

kiln-create-ami PreciseBasic

AMIs are expected to be found in ./kiln/

For an exmaple of what an AMI template looks like see: PreciseBasic template

You will also require a config file to provide all the credentials and other information necessary to create your AMI, this can be located in either ~/.kiln/config.json or ./kiln/config.json

For an example of the values see: example config.json

LICENSE

MIT, see LICENSE file