No One Is Perfect » Amazon http://watchitlater.com/blog A reluctant foray into the world of blogging. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:32:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Provision EC2 instance using boto http://watchitlater.com/blog/2011/09/provision-ec2-instance-using-boto/ http://watchitlater.com/blog/2011/09/provision-ec2-instance-using-boto/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:09:23 +0000 Tom http://watchitlater.com/blog/?p=343 Sam Newman recently published a very interesting blog entry on using fabric to apply puppet scripts on remote machines. He left the provision_using_boto() method as an exercise to the reader. That just sounded tempting enough to be a challenge since I hadn’t gotten around to looking at boto. You can find the result of my attempt on GitHub. To be precise aws.py implements the provisioning using boto and fabfile.py drives fabric and puppet. Hope you find it as useful as I have.

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This release uses the AWS java libraries. They are finally good enough for me to stop creating my own wheels and vulcanising my own rubber. As a bonus the S3DropBox creates URLs in virtual hosted format (eg. https://mybucket.s3.amazonaws.com/myobject) if the bucket name permits that, uses HTTPS by default and is able to perform multipart uploads so that large files get uploaded faster.

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