Description
Summary
ImportImage is able to work with EBS snapshots that have a specific ID, but the ImportSnapshot API supports the full DiskContainer API, including S3 references. The behavior of ImportImage and ImportSnapshot differs in that ImportImage attempts to validate information from the OS disk, such as the exact versions of the OS, where ImportSnapshot simply best-effort expects it to work.
There are several good reasons to be able to use the ImportSnapshot API instead of the ImportImage API, in particular for me the fact that the bootc-image-builder project supports outputting AMI images in .raw format and that moving these to S3 before importing them as a snapshot is the most convenient method for my particular workflow.
At the moment, I'm resorting to the ansible.builtin.shell module with some conditional statements wrapping the invocation to get the behavior I expect. It would be ideal if a properly idempotent module existed.
Issue Type
Feature Idea
Component Name
ec2_import_snapshot (does not exist)
Additional Information
Attempting to use the ImportImage API results in a deleted import task. For example, upload a .raw image to S3 after creation with BIB, then:
- name: Import the image to an AMI
amazon.aws.ec2_import_image:
task_name: example-ami-import
disk_containers:
- format: raw
description: 'Example raw image created with BIB'
user_bucket:
s3_bucket: 'mybucket'
s3_key: 'myimage.raw'This results in:
ok: [localhost] => {
"import_task_info": {
"changed": false,
"failed": false,
"import_image": [
{
"image_id": "",
"import_task_id": "import-ami-asdfasdf",
"snapshot_details": [
{
"disk_image_size": 65229815808.0,
"format": "RAW",
"status": "completed",
"user_bucket": {
"s3_bucket": "mybucket",
"s3_key": "myimage.raw"
}
}
],
"status": "deleted",
"status_message": "CLIENT_ERROR : ClientError: Unknown OS / Missing OS files.",
"tags": {
"Name": "example-ami-import"
}
}
]
}
}
Using the CLI, instead, such as:
echo '{ "Description": "Example raw image created with BIB", "Format": "raw", "UserBucket": { "S3Bucket": "mybucket", "S3Key": "myimage.raw" } }' > containers.json
aws ec2 import-snapshot --disk-container file://containers.json
# wait a while
aws ec2 describe-import-snapshot-tasks --filters Name=task-state,Values=activeresults in:
{
"ImportSnapshotTasks": [
{
"ImportTaskId": "import-snap-asdfasdf",
"SnapshotTaskDetail": {
"DiskImageSize": 65229815808.0,
"Format": "raw",
"SnapshotId": "snap-asdfasdf",
"Status": "completed",
"UserBucket": {
"S3Bucket": "mybucket",
"S3Key": "myimage.raw"
}
},
"Tags": []
}
]
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