AWS-OpenBSD

AWS playground for OpenBSD kids.

Running whatever is in this repo will propably end up destroying a kitten factory.

Prerequisites

• shell access to OpenBSD with internet connection available.

• minimum 12GB free space of /tmp (8GB for disk image and ~4GB for temporary files).

• pkg_add curl ec2-api-tools awscli vmdktool

• shell environment variables available.

  export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=YOUR_AWS_ACCES_KEY;
  export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=YOUR_AWS_SECRET_KEY;

• Identity and Access Management on AWS configured.

YOUR_AWS_ACCES_KEY and YOUR_AWS_SECRET_KEY should have AmazonEC2FullAccess and AmazonS3FullAccess policies assigned.

Script usage

create-ami.sh [-dinsr]
    -d "description"
    -i "/path/to/image"
    -n only create the RAW/VMDK images (not the AMI)
    -r "release (e.g 6.0; default to current)"

References

http://blog.d2-si.fr/2016/02/15/openbsd-on-aws/

Quick build

Install required packages

pkg_add curl ec2-api-tools awscli vmdktool;

Prepare your environment.

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=000_YOUR_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_HERE;
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=000_AWS_SECRET_KEY_HERE;
export AWS_REGION=eu-central-1;
export MIRROR=https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD

Build and upload your image.

curl -sS -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kolargol/openbsd-aws/master/create-ami.sh;
ksh create-ami.sh -r "6.3" -d "OpenBSD 6.3";

Launch your newly created AMI, check public IP and login "ssh root@public_IP". You might want to delete S3 volume and EBS volume used during creating process as well as destroying your vagrant instance.