aws_app_utils

Helpful tools for quickly creating/prototyping simple applications on AWS

Installation

• Clone this repository
• Add the following to your ~/.bash_profile
  • export PATH=(full path to bin directory):$PATH
  • Note this should be a full path (do not use ~)
  • For example, if I cloned this repository to /Users/bob/repos/aws_app_utils, then I would add this line
    • export PATH=/Users/bob/repos/aws_app_utils/bin:$PATH

Usage

• Run aws-app create-app (and follow the prompts) to create a new application
• Run aws-app create-service (and follow the prompts) to create a new service
  • with 1 EC2 instance attached to an autoscaling group, an app-level security group, and a service-level security group
• Run aws-app deploy to deploy code to your service
• Run aws-app ssh to ssh into that EC2 instance
• Run aws-app delete-service to delete all resources configured for this service
• Run aws-app delete-app to delete all resources for an application

FAQ

• How do I specify the build directory
  • (service directory)/ec2-aws.properties, modify the LOCAL_BUILD_DIR
• Is this webscale?
  • No.
  • This is intended to be an easy bootstrap way to get simple services and lambdas running when prototyping an app
  • Please use CloudFormation or other AWS infrastructure when your app needs to become more serious
• How do I give access to other users to my services' EC2 instances?
  • (app directory)/app-aws.properties, modify the EC2_USER_PUBLIC_KEYS
  • Please do not share generated .pem files
• I don't like this, what else can I use?
  • Check out awless