EC2 Image Doc

[trishnaguha]

EC2 Image Creation and Current AMIs

[trishnaguha]

@sayanchowdhury This [1] looks like the list of current AMIs?
[1]https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/VM6ZQUJ4ZWZT4FZES4J326274DYMB3O2/

[sayanchowdhury]

@trishnaguha No, those are not the list of released AMIs. You can redirect them to here: https://getfedora.org/en/cloud/download/

[immanetize]

Hi, I have some thoughts:

• Change the article's title to something like "Creating EC2 images with boxgrinder" to make the contents more readily apparent.
• Preface shell command code blocks with a '#' or '$' prompt as appropriate. This tells the reader that a) they're running a shell command, and b) the command requires privileges, or not.
• Watch out for superfluous transitional phrases. eg:

For boxgrinder to generate images, you will need to have boxgrinder installed somewhere. Simple enough, though you have a couple of options here. Boxgrinder can be installed on your existing Fedora host by running:

could be expressed as

Install boxgrinder on an existing Fedora host by running:

Or eg:

Whichever route you choose, a little bit of configuration is required. First, you will need a config file with a little information about your Amazon AWS account. Put the following BoxGrinder config into a file named:

could be expressed as

First, create a config file at /root/.boxgrinder/config using this template:

Brevity can make the document seem dry, yes, but it also makes it easier to glean information from and less work to translate.

[trishnaguha]

@immanetize Sounds good. Thanks!

[trishnaguha]

@sayanchowdhury @immanetize I have updated the doc.

[sayanchowdhury]

s/project/projects/

[sayanchowdhury]

Other than the ones pointed rest look good to me 👍

[trishnaguha]

Cool. Pushed with modification. Thanks @sayanchowdhury :)