ec2-cli-tools 1.5

Helpful CLI utilities for querying and connecting to EC2 instances

EC2-CLI-Tools
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Helpful CLI utilities to filter and connect to EC2 instances.

ec2who:

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% ec2who nginx2
# or
% ec2who 10.13.12.205
# or
% ec2who ec2-204-236-192-148
nginx2 i-d5236fbd us-east-1c 10.13.12.205 ec2-204-236-192-148.compute-1.amazonaws.com

% ec2who "nginx*"
nginx1 i-d5236fbd us-east-1c 10.13.12.205 ec2-204-236-192-148.compute-1.amazonaws.com
nginx2 i-d5237fbd us-east-1c 10.13.12.206 ec2-204-236-192-149.compute-1.amazonaws.com
nginx3 i-d5238fbd us-east-1c 10.13.12.207 ec2-204-236-192-150.compute-1.amazonaws.com

% ec2who "10.*.207"
nginx3 i-d5238fbd us-east-1c 10.13.12.207 ec2-204-236-192-150.compute-1.amazonaws.com


ec2ssh and ec2host:

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% ec2ssh nginx2
# equivalent to
# ssh [e-mail]

% ec2ssh root@appserver
% ec2ssh deploy@nginx2 sudo restart nginx

# accompanying ec2host script

# w/o arg: prints all active instances
% ec2host
django1 ec2-123-45-67-89.compute-1.amazonaws.com
django2 ec2-132-45-67-89.compute-1.amazonaws.com
django3 ec2-231-45-67-89.compute-1.amazonaws.com

# w/ arg: prints host name of matching instance
% ec2host django2
django2 ec2-132-45-67-89.compute-1.amazonaws.com


ec2getsnaps:

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% ec2getsnaps db1
2012-01-28T02:04:18+0000 db1-xlog 100%

ec2sshproxy:

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~/.ssh/config

Host *.ec2
User ubuntu
ProxyCmd ec2sshproxy %h %p

% ssh my-server-tag.ec2


Links
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* `Original Project, ec2-ssh <http://github.com/Instagram/ec2-ssh>`
* `Instagram <http://instagram.com>`

Changelog
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* 1.0 - initial release, addition of ec2who and migration of deprecated ec2ssh project
* 1.4 - added ec2sshproxy
* 1.5 - added support for VPC hosts