speedup AWS image selection by referencing ami directly, listing all images as done in the libcloud examples, takes several minutes now

example-projects/demo3-microservice-in-aws-destroy.py

@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ def main():
     # access_id = getpass.win_getpass("Enter your access_id:")
     # secret_key = getpass.win_getpass("Enter your secret_key:")
     # session_token = getpass.win_getpass("Enter your session_token:")
-    access_id = "ASIAU..."
-    secret_key = "7lafW..."
-    session_token = "IQoJb3JpZ...EMb//..."
+    access_id = "ASIAX..."
+    secret_key = "eGwE12j..."
+    session_token = "FwoGZXIvYXdzEK///////////wEaDE..."
 
     ###########################################################################
     #

example-projects/demo3-microservice-in-aws.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import getpass
 # import os
-
+from libcloud.compute.base import NodeImage
 from libcloud.compute.providers import get_driver
 from libcloud.compute.types import Provider
 
@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ def main():
     # access_id = getpass.win_getpass("Enter your access_id:")
     # secret_key = getpass.win_getpass("Enter your secret_key:")
     # session_token = getpass.win_getpass("Enter your session_token:")
-    access_id = "ASIAU..."
-    secret_key = "7lafW..."
-    session_token = "IQoJb3JpZ...EMb//..."
+    access_id = "ASIAX..."
+    secret_key = "WLxxXK+..."
+    session_token = "FwoGZXIvYXdzEMb//////////wEaDE5rX.......0SleZ+L75I9iEri9LA4hovWul8HvexhCBK8.......................Ae/T+VkUbcQRtJEDwg+gYCABuk0JlSj5Wk7YA65r3BSNJXZFpkhbek6VBjvE/cEt5fKZEhENcdFxjAcAJLd6bOWi/oGXU5e3PX3mcXgm0oJpz6h3wqD1LvSDtw5GDwn0BHiF1Mu.......................cm/VukK5F"
 
     ###########################################################################
     #
@@ -66,9 +66,9 @@ def main():
     #
     ###########################################################################
 
-    print("Fetching images (AMI) list from AWS region. This will take a lot of seconds (AWS has a very long list of "
-          "supported operating systems and versions)... please be patient...")
-    images = conn.list_images()
+    # print("Fetching images (AMI) list from AWS region. This will take a lot of seconds (AWS has a very long list of "
+    #       "supported operating systems and versions)... please be patient...")
+    # images = conn.list_images()
 
     # image = ''
     # for img in images:
@@ -79,8 +79,18 @@ def main():
     #       image = img
 
     # fetch/select the image referenced with ubuntu_image_name above
-    image = [i for i in images if i.name == ubuntu_image_name][0]
-    print(image)
+
+    # image = [i for i in images if i.name == ubuntu_image_name][0]
+    # print(image)
+
+    # select image directly to save time, as retrieving the image list takes several minutes now,
+    # need to change ami id here if updated or for other regions, id is working for course in
+    # summer term 2022, in region: us-east-1 and pointing to ubuntu 18.04 used in the instance wizard,
+    # to update AMI id use the create instance wizard and copy amd64 image id for ubuntu 18.04 in the
+    # desired region
+    image = NodeImage(id="ami-0e472ba40eb589f49",
+                      name="ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-bionic-18.04-amd64-server-20211129",
+                      driver="hvm")
 
     flavors = conn.list_sizes()
     flavor = [s for s in flavors if s.id == flavor_name][0]