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Set JAVA_HOME for all accounts that are going to use ec2 tools. | Set JAVA_HOME for all accounts that are going to use ec2 tools. | ||
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For all users that are going to use it: | For all users that are going to use it: | ||
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export PATH=${PATH}:${EC2_HOME}/bin | export PATH=${PATH}:${EC2_HOME}/bin | ||
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!!Set the Access Keys | !!Set the Access Keys | ||
Revision as of 17:27, 11 February 2016
External
- Setting Up the Amazon EC2 Command Line Interface Tools on Linux/Unix and Mac OS X http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineReference/set-up-ec2-cli-linux.html
Internal
Download
wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2-api-tools.zip
Unzip
cd /opt unzip .../ec2-api-tools.zip ln -s ./ec2-api-tools-1.7.5.1 ec2-api-tools
Adjust the command to reflect the actual EC2 API tools version.
Post-Install
Set JAVA_HOME
Set JAVA_HOME for all accounts that are going to use ec2 tools.
Set Environment
For all users that are going to use it:
{{{ export EC2_HOME=/opt/ec2 export PATH=${PATH}:${EC2_HOME}/bin }}}
!!Set the Access Keys
More details about access keys here: |[Amazon Security#APIAccessKeys]
Access keys can be specified on command line every time an ec2 command is issued, with:
{{{ -aws-access-key or -O --aws-secret-key or -W }}}
or by setting the following environment variables:
{{{ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY=your-aws-access-key-id export AWS_SECRET_KEY=your-aws-secret-key }}}
!!Test
{{{ ec2-describe-regions }}}
!!Set the Region
{{{ export EC2_URL=https://<service_endpoint> }}}
!!!Commands
|[ec2-describe-regions] |[ec2-describe-instances] |[ec2-start-instances] |[ec2-import-instance] |[ec2-run-instances] |[ec2-create-tags]