[Starcluster] Starcluster Region Issue

[Justin Riley]

Hi Gilles,

I need to document this, it's on my todo list. By default, boto uses the
us-east-1 region. You can change this by adding the following settings to your
[aws info] section in ~/.starcluster/config :

[aws info]
...
aws_region_name=eu-west-1
aws_region_host=ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com

Once I added those settings I got the following from "starcluster listzones":

$ starcluster listzones
...
name:  eu-west-1a
region:  eu-west-1
status:  available

name:  eu-west-1b
region:  eu-west-1
status:  available

Hope that helps. By the way, would you mind joining the mailing list?

~Justin

Quoting Gilles Jacobs <gilles.jacobs at crosslang.com>:

> Hi,
>
> When I was trying to launch a starcluster to test my images and config
> file earlier I ran into some problems.
>>
>> gilles at tm1:~$ starcluster start testcluster
>> StarCluster - (http://web.mit.edu/starcluster)
>> Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR)
>> Please submit bug reports to starcluster at mit.edu
>>
>> >>> Using default cluster template: smallcluster
>> >>> Validating cluster template settings...
>> cli.py:1079 - ERROR - zone eu-west-1b does not exist
>
> When I checked the available zones with the "starcluster listzones"
> command (on a different machine) only four zones showed up (us-east-1a
> up to us-east-1d).
>>
>> root at CentOS-54-64-minimal ~ # ec2-describe-regions
>> REGION  eu-west-1       ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
>> REGION  us-east-1       ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
>> REGION  us-west-1       ec2.us-west-1.amazonaws.com
>> REGION  ap-southeast-1  ec2.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com
>
> So this made me realise the wrong region is selected.
> I was wondering how I have to select the desired region
> (ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Gilles
>
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