This container is a small proxy to the AWS CLI plus a trivial Python package containing some boilerplate tools. Any python module found under the local script folder will be executed and have a few basic EC2 quantities passed as enviroment variables (typically the region or instance id). In addition a handy wrapper to invoke/parse calls to the AWS API is available.
No more messy AWS CLI install plus freedom to script your boot sequence! Please note The instance running this container must have a proper IAM role allowing whatever AWS API calls are specified in the python scripts (e.g there are no AWS credentials passed to the container). The container is meant to be used as a tool, e.g via a one-shot docker run.
Simply create or copy over Python scripts and run the container mounting your script directory to /home/local/scripts, for instance:
$ cat > foo.py <<-EOM
> from bootstrap import AWS
> js = AWS('s3 ls')
> print 'found %d S3 entries' % len(js)
>EOM
$ docker run -it -v $(pwd):/home/local/scripts ads-infra-ec2-bootstrap
executing scripts/foo.py (exit 0) ->
[ok] AWS-CLI (i-0ff68e06b9771448c) -> "s3 ls"
found 10 S3 entries
Contact olivierp@unity3d.com for more information about this project.