A command-line utility to quickly launch EC2 instances. A tasty accompaniment to Fabric.
The easiest way to install touchpaper is via PyPi
$ pip install touchpapertouchpaper needs a little configuration to be made aware of your AWS credentials, but that’s about it.
To use a single AWS account, set the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables in your shell.
To use multiple AWS credential sets and favourite AMIs, copy touchpaperrc.sample to .touchpaperrc in your home directory or your project root and edit as desired. This will also enable saving of last-used config items (when I implement that).
When you run touchpaper it will first look in the current working directory for .touchpaperrc file, then your home directory.
For info on generating/obtaining AWS credentials, see this guide
touchpaper simply asks you a series of questions to pre-configure your EC2 instance, then launches it:
$ touchpaperTo try things out without creating any instances, use dry-run mode:
$ touchpaper --dry-runtouchpaper is a work in progress and some features do not yet work properly in all scenarios. You’re welcome to submit issues via Github, nonetheless, and the open enhancement issues I’ve got currently filed will hopefully illustrate which bits I know to be only partially developed at this time. I welcome your feedback and contributions, and indeed any attention to this project at all. Thank you.