Jenkins on EC2

Owned by Alexander Wert
Jul 24, 2015
1 min read

Resizing the Storage of Jenkins-Slaves on EC2

  • Logon to EC2 with the /wiki/spaces/IN/pages/5701787
  • Under "IMAGES --> AMIs" select the Jenkins Slave AMI and select the snapshot id in the Details below under Block Devices (e.g. /dev/sda1=snap-XXXXXX)
  • Deregister the Jenkins Slave AMI
  • Go to "ELASTIC BLOCK STORE --> Snapshots" and select the snapshot with the previously looked up snapshot ID
  • Under Actions select "Create Image"
    • enter name
    • for Block Device Mappings select desired storage size
    • for "Virtualization type" select "Hardware-assisted virtualization"
  • After a while a new AMI should appear under "IMAGES --> AMIs"
  • copy the AMI ID of the new AMI and paste it to the Jenkins configuration under "Manage Jenkins -> Configure System -> Cloud -> AMIs -> AMI ID"