Django AWS Manager

Django AWS Manager is a django app that allows you to view and manage Amazon EC2 instances. It can be useful as a way to access your server quickly from the admin screen and remote desktop. The servers can be shut off during off hours (e.g., outside of market hours for a trading server) to save costs.

Install

> pip install django-aws-manager

or for the latest from github:

> pip install -e git+git://github.com/jromich/django-aws-manager.git#egg=django-aws-manager

Quick start

1. Add "aws-manager" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:

   INSTALLED_APPS = (
       ...
       'aws-manager',
   )

2. Include the aws_manager URLconf in your project urls.py like this:

   url(r'^aws-manager/', include('aws_manager.urls')),

3. Run python manage.py migrate to create the aws-manager models (or add it using south)

4. register the app with your admin in admin.py:

   from aws_manager.models import AWSServer
   from aws_manager.admin import AWSServerAdmin
   admin.site.register(AWSServer, AWSServerAdmin)

5. add a new server record through the admin screen

Usage

• You can start/stop the server using the admin actions on the aws server list page.
• The server status is visible from the server detail view
• An RDP for remote desktop access file can be downloaded from the detail view if the EC2 server is windows based and is running.

• A management command can be used to start and stop the servers from the command line e.g.:

  python manage.py aws-server *servername* start
  
  (Available management commands: start, stop, state, start-wkdays-only, stop-wkdays-only)

• Starting and stopping of the servers can be scheduled using chron or heroku scheduler using the management commands
• The app can be run as a standalone application using the included project testproject