Private Ubuntu Mirror in No Time with JumpBox Cloud Gear

Instructions for launching your own private Ubuntu Mirror in Amazon EC2 on a Cloud Gear JumpBox for LAMPd. To learn more and sign up for cloud gear see our Cloud Gear Getting Started Page
  1. Log into the Amazon EC2 Console
  2. Launch the latest LAMPd Cloud Gear JumpBox AMI by searching for jumpbox-cloud-gear/lampd and selecting the latest one, this tutorial was made with jumpbox-cloud-gear/lampd-1.1.12. A small instance is fine, and make sure you launch it in a security group that has ports 22, 80, and 3000 open.
  3. Make note of the AMI instance ID and the Availability Zone
  4. Go to Volumes and click Create Volume. Make the volume 60GB and put it in the same Availability zone as the AMI, use snapshot "snap-3c58d855".
  5. Select this volume and Attach it as /dev/sdf to the Instance ID you recorded above.
  6. Get the Public DNS address of that AMI Instance and then visit your LAMPd JumpBox and go through JumpBox Configuration.
  7. After configuration is complete SSH to the JumpBox as the user admin and login with the password you chose during setup. Run the following commands: 
    wget http://static.jumpbox.com/godber/misc/jumpbox-ebs-ubuntu-mirror/jumpbox-hardy-mirror-setup.sh
sudo bash ./jumpbox-hardy-mirror-setup.sh
  8. Visit your AMI public address with your browser for details on using the mirror.

NOTE: You will have to pay the standard Amazon Charges for the EBS volume, bandwidth and standard JumpBox Cloud Gear charges for access to the AMI.

NOTE: The EBS snapshot can be used by any AMI.

Ubuntu Mirror Information

The mirror currently only contains Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 Main, Updates, Security, and Backports. It was created with apt-mirror and you can continue to maintain this mirror with apt-mirror by updating the cronjob as instructed during setup.
Snap IDDate
snap-3c58d855 10/25/2009