ec2dynamicdata is an handy package to retrieve the ec2 dynamic data and meta data information via simple API. The API can change in the future, please vendor it in your code base.
go get github.com/koding/ec2dynamicdataThere are two main functions, one for dynamicdata and one for metadata.
Below is an example code usage:
data, _ := ec2dynamicdata.Get()
/* data output:
{
"accountId" : "123456789",
"instanceId" : "i-abc123",
"billingProducts" : null,
"instanceType" : "t2.micro",
"imageId" : "ami-9871234",
"kernelId" : null,
"ramdiskId" : null,
"architecture" : "x86_64",
"pendingTime" : "2015-07-21T09:10:42Z",
"region" : "eu-west-1",
"version" : "2010-08-31",
"availabilityZone" : "eu-west-1b",
"devpayProductCodes" : null,
"privateIp" : "10.0.123.456"
}
*/
fmt.Println(data.ImageID) // ami-9871234
fmt.Println(data.AccountID // 123456789
amiID, _ := ec2dynamicdata.GetMetadata(ec2dynamicdata.AmiId)
instanceID, _ := ec2dynamicdata.GetMetadata(ec2dynamicdata.InstanceId)
// and so on ...The MIT License (MIT) - see LICENSE.md for more details