soft-spot 0.1.2

Move to a land of Spot AWS instances

soft-spot

Do you have a soft spot for cheap cloud computing (a.k.a. AWS Spot instances)? Me too, no shame on that.

However, what is a shame is having to go through that clunky UI and click here and there to get one; soft-spot makes it dead easy to launch an instance:

How?

Just define a file with the specifications of the machine you want to launch:

[INSTANCE]
ami = ami-06f2f779464715dc5
type = t2.micro
security_group = wizard-launch
key_pair = a_secret_key
spot_price = 0.0035

[ACCOUNT]
user = unbuntu

[VOLUME]
id = vol-volume123
device = /dev/sda2
mount_point = /data/

Then just execute the sspot request command:

sspot request <<instance_config_file>>

Credentials

This script uses boto3 so I strongly recommend heading over to its documentation to learn more.

Alternatively, you could create a tiny configuration file like this:

[DEFAULT]
aws_access_key_id = an_acces_key
aws_secret_access_key = a_secret_key
region_name = us-west-1

And then pass it on to the spot command:

sspot -a ~/aws_credentials.txt request <<instance_config_file>>