Little tool to manage remote dev machines in the cloud
A while ago I decided to move all my computing power to the cloud. Ok, not all, but all the development I've been doing should not be tied to the machine I work with. I started usinginstances in Amazon and Google Cloud Platform and at some point I decided that I would like to improve my workflow.
Starting/stopping machines is not a big deal but it's always nice to have as less friction as possible.
I use amazon spot instances or Google preemptible machines, because why do you need to pay more when you can pay less?
Anyway, this tool helps me with that workflow. To start a new machine, you will execute:
devc up aws
To destroy all your machines you just have to do:
devc down aws
Before devc I had to do things like this:
gcloud compute instances create dev01 --zone europe-west1-c
--preemptible --machine-type "n1-standard-4" --subnet "default"
--tags "dev-box" --image "/ubuntu-os-cloud/ubuntu-1604-xenial-v20160516a"
--description "remote development" --boot-disk-size "100"
--boot-disk-type "pd-standard" --boot-disk-device-name "instance-1"
The tool assumes that you have your amazon credentials in the ~/.aws/credentials file, you might need to export the region if you don't have a config file
[default]
output = json
region = eu-west-1