AWS Provisioning Tool

This project this target to automate the AWS provisioning process for ec2 and route53

Prerequisites

This code is tested with python 2.7, addtional modules (IPy, prettytable, boto3, paramiko) are required which will be installed automaticlly.

Need to configure following at home directory.

For Linux and Mac.

~/.aws/config
~/.aws/credentials

For Windows.

"%UserProfile%"/.aws/config
"%UserProfile%"/.aws/credentials

config file details

[default]
region=ap-southeast-1
output=json

credentials file details

[account1]
aws_access_key_id=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
aws_secret_access_key=wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY

[account2]
aws_access_key_id=AKIAIOSFODNN7TEST
aws_secret_access_key=wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYTESTKEY

Installing

• I have tested working on Mac and Linux

• sudo pip install aws_toolkit==1.0.2

How to use it

from awspackage import aws

myaws = aws.AWS(DOMAIN="abc.com #Hosted at Route53",
        	PEM_LOCATION="/path/to/pem",
                Module_Path="/path/to/ansible/playbook",
                USERNAME="EC2_Username")

myaws.main()

Parameters to take note

• "Domain" refer to the domain name that registered to the AWS under the same account, eg. cjaiwenwen.com (Put dummy data if you dont have route53 service)
• "PEM_LOCATION" refer to the local pem key path eg, /Users/cjaiwenwen/Desktop/chenjun.pem
• "Module_Path" is exact location where the ansible yaml file is located, and the server is under [servers]
• "USERNAME" is the username to access the remote server

What can the library could achieve

• Could select the account to provision based on the section by select the account1 and account2
• Create instance on any region if the VPC has been already created
• Control the number of the VMs could provisioned
• Choose the AMI image
• Choose the subnets
• Choose the security group
• Modify the security group rules if need to be
• Choose the size of the VM
• Assign CNAME for the provisioned VM
• Continue ping the provisioned host
• SSH to the host to confirm accessible (need to add ssh incoming rule)
• Deploy

Authors

• Chen Jun - Initial work - CJAIWENWEN

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Chen Jun

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details