Overview

Queries metadata address on AWS EC2 instances to help see what machine you hit behind an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)

Demo Screenshot

Install required applications

apt-get install -y apache2 php5 awscli git

GIT code onto Ubuntu instance

cd /var/www/html && git clone http://github.com/alphamusk/aws-metadata-php-page 

Cron job to git source every 30 mins

##### m h  dom mon dow   command
job="*/30 * * * *  cd /var/www/html && git pull http://github.com/alphamusk/aws-metadata-php-page.git > /dev/null 2>&1"
(crontab -u ${USER} -l; echo "${job}" ) | crontab -u ${USER} -
crontab -l