Create a CloudFormation stack, install docker on it, and copy the config into your local directory.
AWS CloudFormation provides a declarative template-based way to describe
your infrastructure within code. This project provides a setup of a stack which
includes an EC2 instance functioning as docker host in one single script provision.sh.
This project assumes you have your AWS setup done (e.g. using ~/.aws or aws-vault),
so that you are have the rights to launch an EC2 instance.
Depending on your CloudFormation template, you might need more access rights.
Warning: Starting EC2 instances can imply costs.
This project also assumes that you have docker, docker-machine, python, and aws installed.
Usage:
src/provision.sh <STACK_NAME> <CLOUDFORMATION_TEMPLATE>
Example:
src/provision.sh example-stack examples/templates/CloudFormation.template
<STACK_NAME> refers to your desired CloudFormation stack name.
<CLOUDFORMATION_TEMPLATE> is the path to your CloudFormation template.
After that, to source the docker environment variables in your shell, run:
eval $(src/env.sh <STACK_NAME>)
Now you have your remote docker host setup and can run all sorts of docker (or docker-compose) commands like:
docker run -i -t -p 80:80 ubuntu /bin/bash