euca2ools
Jan Pazdziora
jpazdziora at redhat.com
Thu Nov 11 17:28:23 UTC 2010
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:37:05AM -0600, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
> >
> > Is there anything else I need to have setup beyond EC2_CERT and
> > EC2_PRIVATE_KEY?
>
> Euca2ools programs don't hard-code things like URIs, so you typically
> need to specify more in the environment to get them to work with AWS.
>
> I recommend setting everything of importance up in your shell's rc file.
> For instance, my .zshrc file contains something similar to this:
>
> export S3_URL=https://s3.amazonaws.com:443
> export EC2_URL=https://ec2.amazonaws.com:443
> export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/ec2/euca2-gholms-00000000-pk.pem
> export EC2_CERT=~/ec2/euca2-gholms-00000000-cert.pem
> export EC2_ACCESS_KEY='00000000000000000000'
> export EC2_SECRET_KEY='0000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
>
> ...where the '0's are replaced with account-specific numbers and things.
>
> At the moment you need all six of these variables, though the *_KEY
> variables may not be necessary in future releases.
Ahh. I don't have the EC2_(ACCESS|SECRET)_KEY's, I just use the
certificate access (SOAP?) with ec2-api-tools.
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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
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