[cloud] Use a sortable default AMI name
The AWS console user interface provides no convenient way to sort AMIs
by creation date.
Provide a default AMI name constructed from the current date and CPU
architecture, to simplify the task of finding the most recent iPXE AMI
in a given AWS region.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
diff --git a/contrib/cloud/aws-import b/contrib/cloud/aws-import
index a93a008..65b77b1 100755
--- a/contrib/cloud/aws-import
+++ b/contrib/cloud/aws-import
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
import argparse
from base64 import b64encode
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor, as_completed
+from datetime import date
from hashlib import sha256
from itertools import count
@@ -75,7 +76,7 @@
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Import AWS EC2 image (AMI)")
parser.add_argument('--architecture', '-a', default='x86_64',
help="CPU architecture")
-parser.add_argument('--name', '-n', required=True,
+parser.add_argument('--name', '-n',
help="Image name")
parser.add_argument('--public', '-p', action='store_true',
help="Make image public")
@@ -86,6 +87,13 @@
parser.add_argument('image', help="iPXE disk image")
args = parser.parse_args()
+# Use default name if none specified
+if not args.name:
+ args.name = 'iPXE (%s %s)' % (
+ date.today().strftime('%Y-%m-%d'),
+ args.architecture,
+ )
+
# Use all regions if none specified
if not args.region:
args.region = sorted(x['RegionName'] for x in