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jml
Asked: 2012-06-20 04:21:26 +0800 CST

Tool to fire up EC2 instance and SSH in?

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It's a fairly common thing that I want to fire up a clean EC2 instance of a particular version of Ubuntu (usually lucid or precise) and then SSH in to that instance once it's up.

I've got some Python code that I use to do it for projects (lp:pkgme-service, lp:lp-dev-utils), but I was wondering whether there's a command-line tool.

  • I tried ubuntu-ec2-run. It doesn't use a security group that opens up SSH, so I would have to do that manually.
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  1. The cloud-utils Install cloud-utils package contains a tool called ubuntu-ec2-run that lets you fire up clean instances, I'm not sure on the ssh bit.

    You can also do this with juju if you've got it configured with ec2 with:

    juju deploy ubuntu
juju ssh ubuntu/0
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