Describe Bundle Tasks operation

The Describe Bundle Tasks operation describes the current bundling tasks. Bundling enables AMIs to become the basic unit of deployment that allow you to rapidly boot new custom instances as you need them.

The following figure shows a sample <items> XML element for the Describe Bundle Tasks operation.

Sample <items> XML element for the Describe Bundle Tasks operation

The following table describes the adapter request elements for this request.

Adapter request elements for the Describe Bundle Tasks operation

Element	Definition	Required
<wsdl-location>	Specifies the target Web Service Description Language (WSDL) URL for Amazon EC2 Examples: http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-11-30/ http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2011-02-28/	Conditional: Required if not specified in the request If specified in the configuration and request, the value in the request overrides the value in the configuration
<endpoint-address>	Specifies the web service endpoint for the adapter to use while performing operations on Amazon EC2 instances across different regions Default value: US East region: http://us-east-1.ec2.amazonaws.com/	No
<signature-properties>	Specifies the mode for signing the adapter request	Failed to execute the [panel] macro. Conditional: Required if not specified in the configuration If <signature-properties mode = "key-files">, requires <private-key-file> and <certificate-file> If <signature-properties mode = "key-data">, requires <private-key-data> and <certificate-data> Failed to execute the [panel] macro.
<operation-name>	Contains the name of the operation: describe-bundle-tasks	Yes
<bundles-set>	Specifies the set of bundle tasks to be described	Yes

The following figure shows a sample adapter request for the Describe Bundle Tasks operation.

Sample adapter request for the Describe Bundle Tasks operation

<amazon-ec2-request>
   <wsdl-location>http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-11-30/</wsdl-location>
   <endpoint-address>http://us-east-1.ec2.amazonaws.com/</endpoint-address>
   <signature-properties mode = "key-files">
       <private-key-file>C:\Security\
pk-MJ5GIUNLM2XJ3VRJSYTKOFDWILELDQHB.PEM</private-key-file>
       <certificate-file>C:\Security\
cert-MJ5GIUNLM2XJ3VRJSYTKOFDWILELDQHB.PEM</certificate-file>
   </signature-properties>
   <operation-name>describe-bundle-tasks</operation-name>
   <parameters>
       <bundles-set>
           <item>
               <bundle-id>bun-bb1ffbd2</bundle-id>
           </item>
       </bundles-set>
   </parameters>
</amazon-ec2-request>

The following figure shows the response for the sample adapter request for the Describe Bundle Tasks operation.

Sample adapter response for the Describe Bundle Tasks operation

<amazon-ec2-response>
   <metadata>
       <status>success</status>
   </metadata>
   <DescribeBundleTasksResponse>
       <requestId>1def3bdc-b523-452f-a656-4ff6c770db66</requestId>
       <bundleInstanceTasksSet>
           <item>
               <instanceId>i-91462efa</instanceId>
               <bundleId>bun-bb1ffbd2</bundleId>
               <state>bundling</state>
               <startTime>2010-04-20T06:33:57.000Z</startTime>
               <updateTime>2010-04-20T06:34:18.000Z</updateTime>
               <storage>
                   <S3>
                       <bucket>kbundle</bucket>
                       <prefix>kbundle</prefix>
                   </S3>
               </storage>
               <progress>3%</progress>
           </item>
       </bundleInstanceTasksSet>
   </DescribeBundleTasksResponse>
</amazon-ec2-response>

Describe Bundle Tasks operation

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