Re: Review wanted: euca2ools package

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Jean-Yves Migeon
<jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost> wrote:
> 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,
>
> --
> Jean-Yves Migeon
> jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost


py-boto is already in pkgsrc, and it a really nice api!