Stemcells do not contain an AMI in af-south-1 (Cape Town) and me-south-1 (Bahrain) AWS regions

[Infra-Red]

I'm getting the following error when trying to deploy BOSH in af-south-1 or me-south-1 AWS regions:

creating stemcell (bosh-aws-xen-hvm-ubuntu-bionic-go_agent 1.188):
  CPI 'create_stemcell' method responded with error: CmdError{"type":"Bosh::Clouds::CloudError","message":"Stemcell does not contain an AMI in region af-south-1","ok_to_retry":false}

Another observation is that bionic 1.1 is available in af-south-1 and me-south-1 regions, but all following releases are missing. I also checked that Jammy stemcells are not published in these regions.

Are there any plans to make them available?

[beyhan]

Hi @Infra-Red,

we will look into this to enable the regions for the stemcells wich will be published after we close this issue.

[rkoster]

@Infra-Red I could not find a link to the bionic 1.1 stemcell on bosh.io. Where did you find this stemcell?

[Infra-Red]

@rkoster not sure why it's missing on bosh.io. You can still download it at https://bosh.io/d/stemcells/bosh-aws-xen-hvm-ubuntu-bionic-go_agent?v=1.1. There is also a tag available in bosh-linux-stemcell-builder repo: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-linux-stemcell-builder/tree/ubuntu-bionic/v1.1.

[rkoster]

What is the expected usage in the af-south-1 and me-south-1 regions? I'm asking because there are currently no plans to support those regions, and we need to make a solid case to justify the cost of hosting these images in that region for the foreseeable future (also given the fact that a heavy stemcell can be used as a workaround).

[rkoster]

Closing due to inactivity, feel free to reopen when needed.