ec2-unbundle

Amazon EC2: API Version 2007-01-03

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ec2-unbundle

SYNOPSIS

ec2-unbundle -m MANIFEST-PATH -k PRIVATEKEY [-d DESTINATION-DIRECTORY] [-s SOURCE-DIRECTORY]

DESCRIPTION

Recreates the AMI from the bundled AMI parts.

OUTPUT

Status messages indicating the various stages of the unbundling process are displayed.

OPTIONS

[Note] Note

Note that this tool does not support the common arguments

Option Definition Required? Example
-m, --manifest MANIFEST The path to the unencrypted AMI manifest file. Yes -m /var/spool/my-first-bundle/Manifest
-k, --privatekey KEY The path to the user's PEM encoded RSA key file. Yes -k $HOME/pk-234242DEADCAFE.pem
-s, --source SOURCE-DIRECTORY The directory containing the bundled AMI parts. Defaults to the current directory. No -s /tmp/my-bundled-image
-d, --destination DESTINATION-DIRECTORY The directory to unbundle the AMI in. Defaults to the current directory.
[Note]Note

The destination directory must exist.

No -d /tmp/my-image
--help Display the help message. No --help

EXAMPLE 

$ mkdir unbundled
$ ec2-unbundle -m fred.manifest.xml -s bundled -d unbundled
cat  bundled/fred.part.00 bundled/fred.part.01 bundled/fred.part.02 bundled/fred.part.03 bundled/fred.part.04 bundled/fred.part.05 bundled/fred.part.06 bundled/fred.part.07 bundled/fred.part.08 bundled/fred.part.09 bundled/fred.part.10 bundled/fred.part.11 bundled/fred.part.12 bundled/fred.part.13 bundled/fred.part.14 | openssl enc -d -aes-128-cbc -K a8fbe9586b7fd3df893b237f88e351a9 -iv 121febdf64b0322cd4ffda03aa1ab535 | gunzip > unbundled/fred.img 
Unbundle complete.
$ ls -l unbundled
total 1025008
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1048578048 Aug 25 23:46 fred.img

SEE ALSO

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