Capazon

Capistrano tasks to manage Amazon EC2 Images. Requires Capistrano 2.x

This project is in no way endorsed, sponsored by, or associated with Amazon or amazon.com.

Installation

• gem install capazon
• Edit your your config/deploy.rb:

    require 'capazon'
  
    #AWS login info
    set :aws_access_key_id, 'XXX'
    set :aws_secret_access_key, 'X'
  
    # Name of the keypair used to spawn and connect to the Amazon EC2 Instance
    # Defaults to one created by the setup_keypair task
    set :aws_keypair_name, "#{application}-capazon"
  
    # Path to the private key for the Amazon EC2 Instance mentioned above
    # Detaults to one created by setup_keypair task
    set :aws_private_key_path, "#{Dir.pwd}/#{aws_keypair_name}-key"
  
    #defaults to an ubuntu image
    #set :aws_ami_id, "ami-e4b6538d"
  
    #defaults to, um, default
    #set :aws_security_group, "default"
  

Tasks

Notes:

• All tasks require aws_access_key_id and aws_secret_access_key.
• All tasks optionally take environment variables in lieu of capistrano configuration variables.

ec2:create_keypair

Create a keypair aws_keypair_name and write out the generate private key to aws_private_key_path.

ec2:delete_keypair

Deletes keypair aws_keypair_name.

ec2:describe_keypairs

Describes keypairs.

ec2:describe_images

Describes AMIs you have privilege to execute.

ec2:run_instance

Runs an instance of aws_ami_id with access available via aws_keypair_name.

ec2:terminate_instance

Terminates aws_instance_id.

ec2:describe_instances

Describes running AMIs.

ec2:authorize_web_and_ssh_access

Opens tcp access on port 80 and 22 to the aws_security_group.

Meta

Rubyforge Project Page:	rubyforge.org/projects/capazon
Author:	Jesse Newland (soylentfoo.jnewland.com) (jnewland@gmail.com)
Copyright:	Copyright (c) 2007 Jesse Newland
License:	Distributes under the same terms as Ruby