Automated testing of ec2 / uec images

Marjo: assigned to you for tasking within the QA team -- mdz
I (smoser) added the work items below, they can be trashed or improved on.

ttx review (20091130) -- The remaining questions in 7.1 should probably be addressed before this spec is approved.
Assigned to apulido (20091202) in the QA Team
Postponed for M release consideration.

Status:
(not started)

Work items:
[smoser] get credentials for UEC cloud that can be used from nectarine: POSTPONED
[smoser] get daily builds published to a UEC cloud: POSTPONED
acquire account credentials for an ec2 account to run tests with: TODO
acquire system to launch instances from: TODO
develop ability to poll for new images on ec2 and UEC: TODO
develop infrastructure to launch test instances: TODO
add to infrastructure ability to launch tests inside instances via user-data: TODO
Test initial boot and network connectivity: TODO
Test that the instance can be reached by ssh: TODO
Check fingerprints in console log (ec2-get-console-output): TODO
Check fingerprints on ssh: TODO
Check fingerprints in syslog: TODO
Test that mount points are correct: TODO
Test that # /etc/apt/sources.list are correct: TODO
Test that $LANG is correct: TODO
Test timezone is correct: TODO
Test that kernel is correct: TODO
Test that the correct modules are loaded: TODO
Test that ubuntu user exists: TODO
Test that root account locked: TODO
Test that ubuntu user can sudo without password: TODO
Test taht ssh keys are correct in /root/.ssh/authorized_keys and /home/ubuntu/.ssh/authorized_keys: TODO
Test root user gets the message that they can't ssh in: TODO
Test ec2-currency: TODO
Test that boot hooks are generally functional: TODO
Test each of the config options that we support: TODO
Test that user-data is ignored if it doesn't start with #!: TODO
Test that user-data is run on first boot if it does start with #!: TODO
Test that user-data is not run on reboot: TODO
Test that user-data sends output to console log for debugging: TODO
Test rebundle of images: TODO