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AWS stemcell is missing from cn-north-1 region since v1.423
Hi team,
I want to report the Stemcell AMI for cn-north-1 is missing from the stemcell.MF lightweight package in the v1.423 release.
We also couldn't find the AMI associated with v1.406 available in AWS China.
cn-north-1: ami-0c9ed81eab6e91191
Can you please confirm if there is any change of region scope which removes cn-north-1 region going forward? Or this is just an operational issue?
Cheers, Gary
This was announced in the bosh Slack channel. Form the channel (link):
Hi all. We’ve run into yet another problem where our AWS China accounts have been deactivated and we’re not having any luck regaining access to them. We don’t believe we’re going to get access to them, which means in some shortish amount of time, all the AWS China light stemcell AMIs will fail to work. We also will be unable to publish new light stemcells into the AWS China region. If you deploy things into this region, you’ll need to use the heavy stemcell.
because https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-aws-cpi-release/issues/134 prevents the usage of a heavy stemcell we are currently stuck here with bosh create-env in cn-north-1
Work around would be to spin up a bootstrap VM in cn-north-1 manually and then run the create-env from that VM so it's able to create/attach an EBS volume to the VM and create the AMI from the heavy image.
Hi all, apologies for the lengthy delay on this. Questions from LF IT:
"Does this need to be in mainland China? Does this need to be AWS, or will other cloud providers work (like Alibaba) If this has to be in China, this will require an ICP license, tied to the project. We haven't done one of these in quite a while, maybe 2018/2019 for the last one."
I believe we'd need to get an ICP license. If so, it's not a trivial ask and has some expense attached to it, as the CFF would need to create a business unit in China. However, it's possible. Let me know if this is essential, or if we're wrong about the complexities here. Happy to jump on a call to discuss.
Alibaba won’t work, in the past we relied on the ICP license from Pivotal, which has expired, preventing us from publishing AWS AMI’s to the China region.
On 28 Aug 2024, at 17:22, Chris Clark @.***> wrote:
Hi all, apologies for the lengthy delay on this. Questions from LF IT:
"Does this need to be in mainland China? Does this need to be AWS, or will other cloud providers work (like Alibaba) If this has to be in China, this will require an ICP license, tied to the project. We haven't done one of these in quite a while, maybe 2018/2019 for the last one."
I believe we'd need to get an ICP license. If so, it's not a trivial ask and has some expense attached to it, as the CFF would need to create a business unit in China. However, it's possible. Let me know if this is essential, or if we're wrong about the complexities here. Happy to jump on a call to discuss.
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We discussed this in the TOC meeting and we don't see high demand at the moment to offer a light stemcell in China. That is why we don't plan for this for now because it is not a trivial task and has some expense attached. Also, there is a workaround described in https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-aws-cpi-release/issues/134. @garyliu-philips Have you found a workaround for you?
@beyhan sorry for the late response. yes, we are using the https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-aws-light-stemcell-builder and the heavy stemcell to create the AMI manually and update the light stemcell package. it takes some time to prepare it for the cf deployment but it works.
Closing with the statement that we don't plan to provide a light stemcell in China for the moment because of https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-linux-stemcell-builder/issues/340#issuecomment-2341269705.