gallican/ec2box

A web-based ssh terminal to execute commands and make changes to multiple EC2 sessions simultaneously running on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

EC2Box

About

A web-based ssh terminal to execute commands and make changes to multiple EC2 sessions simultaneously running on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Demo

http://youtu.be/T4SBisCz91M

Prerequisites

SQLite3 http://www.sqlite.org/download.html

sudo apt-get install sqlite3 sqlite3-dev 

**Should already be installed in Mac OS X v10.5 or greater

Java JDK 1.6 or greater http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/overview/index.html

Maven 3 or greater ( Only needed if building from source ) http://maven.apache.org

To Run Bundled with Jetty

If your not big on the idea of building from source...

Download ec2box-jetty-vXX.XX.tar.gz

https://github.com/skavanagh/EC2Box/releases

Export environment variables

 export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/jdk
 export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

Start EC2Box

    ./startEC2Box.sh

To Build from Source

Export environment variables

export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/jdk
export M2_HOME=/path/to/maven
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$M2_HOME/bin:$PATH

In the directory that contains the pom.xml run

mvn package jetty:run

**Note: Doing a mvn clean will delete the SQLite DB and wipe out all the data.

Using EC2Box

Open browser to http://localhost:8090

Login with

username:admin 
password:changeme

Steps:

1. Set your AWS credentials
2. Import the private key used on your EC2 systems (note: The EC2 server will only show if the private key has been imported)
3. Set the EC2 regions of the residing systems
4. Start composite-ssh sessions or create and execute a script across multiple sessions

Author

Sean Kavanagh

• [email protected]
• https://twitter.com/spkavanagh6