[Starcluster] Availability zone eu-west-1b

[Justin Riley]

Hi Joachim,

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

I'm also considering allowing the EC2_URL environment variable to 
overwrite the
region name/host settings used by StarCluster. This would avoid the region
problem for users who have setup the ec2 command line tools correctly 
for other
regions.

Also, I'm not sure whether using EBS-backed instances will work with 
StarCluster
or not. I seem to recall needing to launch them with another API 
command that I
haven't added to StarCluster yet but I could be wrong. I'm very interested in
hearing whether you're successful or not, and what your issues are. 
Please keep
the list posted.

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

~Justin

Quoting Joachim Van den Bogaert <joachim at ccl.kuleuven.be>:

> Hi,
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> I am trying to get starcluster to work in the eu-west-1b zone.
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> I first migrated the starcluster image to the eu zone with the  kernel and
> ramdisk used by alestic for their ubuntu 9.10 amd server in the eu zone.
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> I modified the migrated AMI and converted it into an EBS image instead of an
> instance-store image.
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> I then configured my config correctly, but when I tried to start my cluster
> I get the following message:
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> StarCluster - (http://web.mit.edu/starcluster)
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> Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR)
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> Please submit bug reports to starcluster at mit.edu
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>>>> Using default cluster template: smallcluster
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>>>> Validating cluster template settings...
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> cli.py:1079 - ERROR - zone eu-west-1b does not exist
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> The zone has been defined in the config
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> My EC2_URL vriable is set at http:// ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
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> I noticed however that the python scripts are using the variables define in
> the config - which is logical - and override, amongst others, the EC2_CERT
> variable
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> I was wondering whether the EC2_URL variable is also overridden somewhere
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> Kind regards,
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> Joachim
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