/aws-export-ami-to-vmdk

aws-export-ami-to-vmdk

  1. Create EC2 Instance temporary, for running script. Choose minimum spesification like t3.micro 8gib.
  2. Create IAM user with role AdministratorAccess
  3. Generate AccessKey & SecretKey
  4. Connect to instance, install aws-cli with this command : yum instal aws-cli
  5. Config the credential aws-cli with command : aws configure
  6. Insert AccessKey, SecretKey, Region, and skip others.
  7. Copy file trust-policy.json on this repository to path /tmp/
  8. Run this command on the /tmp/ path : aws iam create-role --role-name vmimport --assume-role-policy-document "file:///tmp/trust-policy.json"
  9. Copy another file role-policy.json on this repo to same path.
  10. Run this command : aws iam put-role-policy --role-name vmimport --policy-name vmimport --policy-document "file:///tmp/role-policy.json"

After the prerequisite above is done. You can start for export AMI to VMDK. with this command: aws ec2 export-image --image-id {{ami-id}} --disk-image-format VMDK --s3-export-location S3Bucket={{my-export-bucket}},S3Prefix={{exports/}}

you can adjust for ami-id, S3 Bucket name, and prefix

Example result: { "DiskImageFormat": "vmdk", "ExportImageTaskId": "export-ami-1234567890abcdef0" "ImageId": "ami-1234567890abcdef1", "RoleName": "vmimport", "Progress": "0", "S3ExportLocation": { "S3Bucket": "my-export-bucket", "S3Prefix": "exports/" }, "Status": "active", "StatusMessage": "validating" }

This command for check status: aws ec2 describe-export-image-tasks --export-image-task-id export-ami-id

result : { "ExportImageTasks": [ { "ExportImageTaskId": "export-ami-1234567890abcdef0" "Progress": "21", "S3ExportLocation": { "S3Bucket": "my-export-bucket", "S3Prefix": "exports/" }, "Status": "active", "StatusMessage": "updating" } ] }