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Description

Deliver an appliance to Amazon S3

Setup

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AWS account required
You need an Amazon AWS account to perform this Test Case
  1. Prepare your environment
  2. Put the following BoxGrinder config into a file named: /root/.boxgrinder/config
plugins:
  s3:
    access_key: AWS_ACCESS_KEY                        # (required)
    secret_access_key: AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY          # (required)
    bucket: stormgrind-test                           # (required)
    account_number: 0000-0000-0000                    # (required)
    path: /images                                     # default: /
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BoxGrinder Build config file location
The default location for this file is /root/.boxgrinder/config. You can put this file in different location by specifying BG_CONFIG_FILE environment variable.

How to test

  1. Execute
    boxgrinder-build /boxgrinder-appliances/testing-appliances/jeos-appls/fedora-15-jeos.appl -p ec2 -d s3 --trace

Expected Results

The following must be true to consider this a successful test run.

  1. Step #1 completes without error (indicated on console)
  2. Program completes with exit code 0
  3. A tar.gz file of the appliance has appeared in your S3 bucket at the expected path