EC2 re-imbursement for the cloud test day?

Garrett Holmstrom gholms at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 11 15:03:55 UTC 2011


On 2011-10-10 8:40, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Garrett Holmstrom
> <gholms at fedoraproject.org>  wrote:
>> On 2011-10-10 4:33, Mo Morsi wrote:
>>> Alternatively, would it be possible for us to setup / share a single
>>> cloud account for the various testers to use? We could activate it for
>>> that day only and thus people would not have to sign up for the cloud
>>> providers on their own to test the software. Would just lower the
>>> boilerplate to testing the cloud w/ Fedora all that more.
>>
>> +1; this is exactly the sort of thing that AWS's IAM service excels at.
>>   You can create a user for each tester, use ACLs to pick what they are
>> allowed to do, and remove the users when the test day is over.
>
> Since you sound all expertish :) ... If I make a new account for that
> type of purpose, can I either get you to do the user creation
> magic/ACLs, or can you give me the walk-through? :D

Sure.  Doing it myself wouldn't teach anyone anything, so when I get a 
chance I will write up a couple wiki pages.



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