Configuration and Orchestration service categorization for AWS EC2 resource

Configuration and Orchestration service categorization for AWS EC2 resource

1. Configuration operations

   • Configuring the common private key and public key to any user
     • http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-ec2-keypairs.html
   • Configure security group (inbound access privileges)
     • http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-ec2-sg.html
   • Configure the initial EC2 service parameters like template
     • http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-ec2-launch.html
   • Configure Users and permissions for resource service
     • http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-iam-new-user-group.html
     • Add Users
       • http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-iam-new-user-group.html
     • Set permissions for each user by specifying policy
       • http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-iam-policy.html
     • Configure the password of the user
       • http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-iam-set-pw.html
     • Configure the security credentials (for programmatic access) for each user
       • http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-iam-create-creds.html
   • Configure License
     • http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/activate-license.html

2. Orchestration orchestration

   • Selection
     • Describe images
       • http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineReference/ApiReference-cmd-DescribeImages.html
     • List instances
       • http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-ec2-launch.html
   • Deployment
     • Run EC2 instance
       • http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-ec2-launch.html
   • Monitoring
     • List instances
       • http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-ec2-launch.html
     • Monitor instances
       • http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/monitor-instances.html
   • Control
     • Terminate EC2 instance
     • Reboot EC2 instance
       • http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/reboot-instances.html
     • Import/export an EC2 instance to a
     • Create snapshots for backup purposes
     • Stop EC2 Instance

3. EC2 resource configuration description

   • license
   • elastic IP address
   • private IP addess
   • can be a element of a Virtual Private Cloud
   • can have a elastic block store(EBS) volume
   • tags