Acky Library

The Acky library provides a consistent interface to AWS. Based on botocore, it abstracts some of the API work involved and allows the user to interact with AWS APIs in a consistent way with minimal overhead.

Acky takes a different approach to the API from libraries like the venerable Boto <https://github.com/boto/boto>. Rather than model AWS objects as Python objects, Acky simply wraps the API to provide a more consistent interface. Most objects in AWS are represented as collections in Acky, with get(), create(), and destroy() methods. The get() method always accepts a filter map, no matter if the underlying API method does.

In cases where the API’s multitude of parameters would make for awkward method calls (as is the case with EC2’s RunInstances), Acky provides a utility class whose attributes can be set before executing the API call.

Using Acky

Acky uses a botocore-style AWS credential configuration, the same as the official AWS CLI. Before you use Acky, you’ll need to set up your config <http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html>.

Once your credentials are set up, using acky is as simple as creating an instance of the AWS object:

from acky.aws import AWS
aws = AWS(region, profile)
instances = aws.ec2.Instances.get(filters={'tag:Name': 'web-*'})
print('Found {} web servers'.format(len(instances)))
for instance in instances:
    print('  {}'.format(instance['PublicDnsName'])

Module Structure

The expected module structure for Acky follows. Many APIs are not yet implemented, but those that are can be considered stable.

• AWS

  • username (property)

  • userinfo (property)

  • account_id (property)

  • environment (property)

  • ec2

    • regions

    • zones

    • ACEs

    • ACLs

    • ElasticIPs

    • Instances

    • IpPermissions

    • KeyPairs

    • PlacementGroups

    • SecurityGroups

    • Snapshots

    • Subnets

    • VPCs

    • Volumes

  • iam

    • Users

    • Groups

    • Keys

  • rds

    • engine_versions

    • Instances

    • Snapshots

    • EventSubscriptions

    • SecurityGroups

    • SecurityGroupRules

  • sqs

    • Queues

    • Messages

  • sts

    • GetFederationToken

    • GetSessionToken

Other services will be added in future versions.

Installing acky

acky is available in PyPI and is installable via pip:

pip install acky

You may also install acky from source, perhaps from the GitHub repo:

git clone https://github.com/RetailMeNot/acky.git
cd acky
python setup.py install