speedup AWS image selection by referencing ami directly, listing all images as...

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

 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]