Re: Review wanted: euca2ools package

[Jean-Yves Migeon <jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost>]

Le 03/02/13 18:42, Hubert Feyrer a écrit :
> playing with ansible, its "ec2" module came to my attention: it is
> intended to manage virtual machines in Amazon's EC2 cloud. The idea is
> that you describe a system with the property "needs to run in Amazon's
> cloud", and ansible then starts the machine if it isn't there already.
> In order to get to the point where this can be played with, a working
> version of the euca2ools package was required first.
>
> Here it is, please send your comments to me:
>
>      http://www.feyrer.de/Misc/pkgsrc-sysutils-euca2ools-2.1.2.tgz
>
> Core usage is:
> % euca-run-instances -t t1.micro -k eucaHF ami-7fc3c30b
> % ssh -i key-eucaHF.pem -l root ec2-54-228-22-143.compute.amazonaws.com
>
> More information on using the package is here:
>
>      http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/blog.html/nb_20130203_1833.html
>
> Thanks in advance for your comments!

Great to have an alternative to the ruby/java dependencies for the 
ec2-api/ec2-ami packages (especially java, meh).

Looking forward to have it available via pkgsrc; you can take this 
comment as a compliment from the ec2-ami/api maintainer :)

Do you know whether ansible provides a more human-friendly output than 
the one similar to Amazon tools? I find the output rather painful to 
parse via awk, and XML is way too complicated to my taste for 
grepping/awking VMs information.

Cheers,

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Jean-Yves Migeon
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