[orchestration] AWS public cloud images

[Mark Meyer <mark@ofosos.org>]

Hi,
I've the beginning of Guix cloud images available over at Github at

  https://github.com/ofosos/guix-packer/

There's a small writeup of what has been done and what's still missing over here:

  https://ofosos.org/2018/03/26/guix-images-01/

All in all, I split the heavy lifting between Packer (AWS API calls) and `guix system` and that worked remarkably well. There's some integration with EC2 (You can inject a pubkey into the image via the console), but there's also a lot of stuff missing. In the end, I would like to provide public cloud images in some weeks time. Of course you'll have all the tools to rebuild your own images (surprisingly simple).

I think there's still a lot of polish we can apply, but at some point we'll need some help from AWS. I do have AWS support access at work, but am not really comfortable to use company resources for this yet, but I'll probably ask if there's some  avenue to get some 'official' help as a free software project, when I run across our technical account manager.

Cheers, Mark

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  Mark Meyer
  mark@ofosos.org