Merge pull request #176 from bacongobbler/fixup-bucket-create

fix(create_bucket): try default s3 region on create error

rootfs/bin/create_bucket

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import boto.s3
 import json
 import swiftclient
 from boto import config as botoconfig
+from boto.exception import S3CreateError
 from boto.s3.connection import S3Connection, OrdinaryCallingFormat
 from oauth2client.service_account import ServiceAccountCredentials
 from gcloud.storage.client import Client
@@ -23,9 +24,20 @@ region = os.getenv('AWS_REGION')
 
 if os.getenv('DATABASE_STORAGE') == "s3":
     conn = boto.s3.connect_to_region(region)
-
     if not bucket_exists(conn, bucket_name):
-        conn.create_bucket(bucket_name, location=region)
+        try:
+            conn.create_bucket(bucket_name, location=region)
+        # NOTE(bacongobbler): for versions prior to v2.9.0, the bucket is created in the default region.
+        # if we got here, we need to propagate "us-east-1" into WALE_S3_ENDPOINT because the bucket
+        # exists in a different region and we cannot find it.
+        # TODO(bacongobbler): deprecate this once we drop support for v2.8.0 and lower
+        except S3CreateError as err:
+            if region != 'us-east-1':
+                print('Failed to create bucket in {}. We are now assuming that the bucket was created in us-east-1.'.format(region))
+                with open(os.path.join(os.environ['WALE_ENVDIR'], "WALE_S3_ENDPOINT"), "w+") as file:
+                    file.write('https+path://s3.amazonaws.com:443')
+            else:
+                raise
 
 elif os.getenv('DATABASE_STORAGE') == "gcs":
     scopes = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.full_control']