EC2 API and integration with Libcloud, Euca2ools

Supported Actions

• DescribeInstances
• DescribeImages
• RunInstances
• TerminateInstances
• RebootInstances

Use with libcloud driver

from libcloud.compute.types import Provider
from libcloud.compute.providers import get_driver
import time

EC2_ACCESS_KEY = ""
EC2_SECRET_KEY = ""

Driver = get_driver(Provider.EUCALYPTUS)
conn = Driver(
EC2_ACCESS_KEY,
secret=EC2_SECRET_KEY,
host="localhost",
secure=False,
port=4001,
path="/")

images = conn.list_images()
print images
sizes = conn.list_sizes()
print sizes
node = conn.create_node(image=images[0], size=sizes[1], ex_mincount = 1, name = "vm")
time.sleep(5)
nodes = conn.list_nodes()
print nodes

Use with Euca2ools

First of all, install euca2ools program on your local machine. In order to use euca2ools you need to define some environment variables, this can be done by storing them in a file, and by sourcing it.

# snoozeeuca2oolsrc
export EC2_URL="http://<snoozeec2-address>:<snoozeec2-port>"
export S3_URL=""
export EUCALYPTUS_CERT=""
export EC2_CERT=""
export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=""
export EC2_ACCESS_KEY=""
export EC2_SECRET_KEY=""

Source the file

source snoozeeuc2oolsrc

You can now start working with euca2ools

$) euca-describe-images