Amazon Web Services - Workflow Steps

Getting Started

Amazon's EC2 (opens new window) (Elastic Cloud Compute) is a cloud service in wide use for dynamic infrastructure; it is easy to start up and shut down Node "Instances" in the cloud. Use these Rundeck steps to automate common EC2 actions.

Access Key ID

Specify your AWS Access key.

Secret Key

Specify your AWS Secret Key

Region

Specify the region for the node. If using the EC2 Node Source it's possible to use ${node.region} and the region will be dynamically populated with the region for that node.

EC2 VM Workflow Steps (Enterprise Only)

For most of these steps an Instance ID will need to be included for the instance to be acted on.

AWS / VM / Start

Start the EC2 instance.

AWS / VM / Stop

Start the EC2 instance.

AWS / VM / Delete

Terminate the EC2 instance.

WARNING

Be very careful when using this step. It would be possible to remove a lot of instances by mistake if the node filter is too broad.

AWS / VM / CaptureSnapshot

Captures a Snapshot of the specified instance.

Provide a Snapshot Name for the newly created Snapshot, and Volume ID that the snapshot will be taken from.

AWS / Cloud / Audit / Trail / Logs

Creates a log stream for the specified log group using log group name and log stream name.

Include the Log Group Name and Log Stream Name

AWS / Configure / Vpc / Logs / Instance / Groups

Creates one or more flow logs to capture information about IP traffic for a specific network interface, subnet, or VPC.

AWS / Create / Resource

Create EC2 resource from existing snapshots

AWS / EnableVpc / NetworkPeering

Requests a VPC peering connection between two VPCs.

AWS / Autoscaling / Update / Groups

Updates the configuration for the specified Auto Scaling group.