Can't find AMI on aws

[James-E-Adams]

Hi!
Is the linux ami listed in aws.properties.default as id: ami-d216a3ba available anywhere? If not, is it possible to set this up without it?

[discobean]

It is in us-east-1 region.

Does anybody know what the username to access this AMI once it comes up is?

[James-E-Adams]

Oh, hilarious. I've set up our infrastructure sans the autoscaling, but nice to know for futureproofing. Is there a locked user already set up on the AMI?

[discobean]

I rebuilt the AMI from us-east-1 using packer, and created an ami in ap-southeast-2: ami-70ddcf13.

I used this packer file:

{
    "builders": [
        {
            "ami_name": "grid-node-new-open3-domain",
            "ami_groups": [ "all" ],
            "ssh_username": "ubuntu",
            "instance_type": "t2.medium",
            "region": "us-east-1",
            "source_ami": "ami-d216a3ba",
            "type": "amazon-ebs"
        }
    ]
}

Basically created an AMI in my AWS account in us-east-1, then just copied the AMI to ap-southeast-2.

So you could do the same for whatever region you need.

[James-E-Adams]

Great. Thanks for posting that.

[mhardin]

@AggressiveSneeze the built in user should be 'ubuntu' FWIW

[ambirag]

@James-E-Adams @discobean @mhardin
As we are talking about AMI, have got a question:
Currently my grid runs on 2.53 , FFv45 ESR (supported by AWS EC2), Chrome v51 , all fine.

I upgraded to Selenium Webdriver 3.4.0 and i was able to run on FFv52 ESR (supported by AWS EC2)
But now that I updated SeleniumGrid Scaler to selenium 3.5.3, I am not able to start FFv52 or Chrome v61 on EC2 nodes.
I can see the spots are greyed but then i get ' Chrome failed to start: crashed' and for FF it simply times out.
Just curious if any of you have succeeded in running latest FF or Chrome in AWS linux boxes?
I am using latest Chrome and Gecko drivers as necessary.

Any input is appreciated!

[mhardin]

@ambirag we're running chrome 61 on our linux boxes. We updated selenium in this project, as well as the selenium jar on the nodes. I want to say we intermittently get the Chrome failed to start: crashed error, but for the most part it runs well for us.

[ambirag]

@mhardin is that Linux - AWS linux or Ubuntu or FEDORA or what flavor is it? because officially chrome discontinued support for CenOS/RHEL so just curious. Also installing chrome on Linux requires gtk3 library, can you point me to any instructions you followed?

[mhardin]

@ambirag its the default ubuntu image thats included in this project.