{"id":45,"date":"2012-05-26T18:38:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T01:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jbrowne.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2012-05-26T18:38:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T01:38:12","slug":"new-and-updated-ubuntu-packages-for-aws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jbrowne.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"New and updated Ubuntu packages for AWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended my first Ubuntu related conference earlier this month, the <a href=\"http:\/\/uds.ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu Developer Summit<\/a> for the Quantal release. \u00a0We use Ubuntu heavily at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.42lines.net\">42lines<\/a>, so it is a bit embarrassing that I didn&#8217;t even know about UDS until I saw it mentioned on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alestic.com\">Eric Hammond&#8217;s<\/a> blog. \u00a0I was planning on being in SF a few days after UDS was being held, so I adjusted my travel plans and dropped by Oakland. \u00a0The main attraction for me was the <a href=\"https:\/\/blueprints.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+spec\/servercloud-q-awstools\">session on packaging more AWS tools for Ubuntu<\/a>. \u00a0I had worked with Scott Moser of Canonical earlier in the year on having the ELB tools packaged for Ubuntu. \u00a0At this session I signed up for updating the RDS and IAM tools to the latest upstream version and packaging the ELB and Import\/Export tools. \u00a0So far the first three items are done. \u00a0The results can be seen in the awstools-dev Launchpad <a href=\"https:\/\/code.launchpad.net\/~awstools-dev\">repos<\/a> and soon should be seen in the awstools-dev <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~awstools-dev\/+archive\/awstools\">PPAs<\/a> and Quantal itself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attended my first UDS and volunteered to help maintain existing and new Ubuntu packages for AWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,7,22],"tags":[23,8,24],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-ec2","category-systems-administration","category-ubuntu","tag-ec2-2","tag-sysadmin","tag-ubuntu-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jbrowne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jbrowne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jbrowne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jbrowne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jbrowne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jbrowne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jbrowne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jbrowne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jbrowne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jbrowne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}