Latest revision as of 23:11, 9 April 2019

External

wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2-api-tools.zip

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.

Set JAVA_HOME for all accounts that are going to use ec2 tools.

For all users that are going to use it, configure the following environment variables in their .bashrc (or equivalent):

export EC2_HOME=/opt/ec2-api-tools
export PATH=${PATH}:${EC2_HOME}/bin

Setting AWS Credentials

ec2-describe-regions

Set AWS Region

@@ Line 38: / Line 38: @@
 </pre>
-!!Set the Access Keys
+==<span id='Set_the_Access_Keys'>Set AWS Credentials==
-More details about access keys here:
+{{Internal|Setting AWS Credentials|Setting AWS Credentials}}
-|[Amazon Security#APIAccessKeys]
+=Test Installation=
-Access keys can be specified on command line every time an ec2 command is issued, with:
+<pre>
-{{{
--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
-}}}
+</pre>
-!!Set the Region
-{{{
-export EC2_URL=https://<service_endpoint>
-}}}
-!!!Commands
+=Set the Region=
-|[ec2-describe-regions]
+{{Internal|AWS_Region_Operations#Setting_Region_for_EC2_CLI|Set AWS Region}}
-|[ec2-describe-instances]
-|[ec2-start-instances]
-|[ec2-import-instance]
-|[ec2-run-instances]
-|[ec2-create-tags]