Virtual Appliances - AWS: Deploy with cfn-init

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Hi everyone,

One of our clien’t Cloud integration partners are trying to automate the deployment of Virtual Appliances on AWS and they want to leverage cfn-init to download some files into the VA, create some folders etc.

Usually in the Linux images for AWS, according to the partner, there is a folder under /opt/aws/ which contains the executables for cfn-init. In the VAs that is not case.

Tried doing a ls -a on /opt/ but the folder wasn’t there. Also it is impossible to create folders on /opt/. So I have 2 questions:

  1. Has anyone automated VA deployement using cfn-init?
  2. Has anyone ever automated VA deployment in general on AWS? Found the following: Virtual Appliance Automation - #10 by Ramiro but it is an old post + there is no “official” way to do it.

Thanks for your time

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Hi Spyros,
Thank you for the post. As per Sailpoint documentation this is currently not supported and we cant drop any files in the VA. But this seems to be a potential candidate for futher enhancement. I would like you to raise it as a idea in the idea portal so that Sailpoint can look into the same.

https://ideas.sailpoint.com/ideas/

Thanks
Rakesh Bhati

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