Cleaning up

Useful things to know when using development versions of Aeolus.

Getting Started Guide

  1. Basic Glossary
  2. Configuring Aeolus
  3. First login
  4. Configure your Cloud Providers
  5. Configure the Aeolus Command Line Interface tool
  6. Create a Fedora 16 Template
  7. Start an Instance of the Image
  8. Stop a running Instance
  9. Cleaning up

Unconfiguring Aeolus

To remove all of the configuration data and database entries from an Aeolus server, run the aeolus-cleanup command as a super-user:

$ sudo /usr/sbin/aeolus-cleanup

This is useful for removing Aeolus configuration data from an existing server, prior to running aeolus-configure, so is of particular interest to testers and developers.

It only acts on the local Aeolus server, and does not communicate with any configured Cloud providers or stop any currently-running instances. You need to manually remove any information in configured Cloud providers.

WARNING: This command drops the PostgreSQL database, and permanently deletes Conductor related data. Don’t use it on a server whose data you want to keep.

If you are using Amazon EC2, follow the next steps to complete the cleanup.


Remove any AMIs left in EC2 and storage left in S3

Aeolus does not yet de-register AMIs, nor delete their corresponding storage from S3. For now, you will need to use the AWS Management Console to de-register AMIs and delete S3 storage yourself.

De-registering an AMI

Load Amazons’ AWS Management Console, make sure you are in the EC2 section, then change to the AMIs page.

  1. Tick the checkbox next to the AMIs created by Aeolus.
  2. Click De-register then confirm this is what you want to do.

    Deregister EC2 AMIs

This removes the selected AMIs from your AMI list. Their storage needs to be removed from S3 next.

Removing S3 storage

Load Amazons’ AWS Management Console, and make sure you are in the S3 section.

  1. Look for any buckets with “imagefactory” in their name, as these will have been created by Aeolus.
  2. For each of these buckets, delete its contents then delete the bucket itself.


Next Steps

Aeolus has a much richer set of capabilities than what has been shown in this Getting Started Guide.

To find out more, you can: