script to spin up an amazon ec2 instance and deploy a tomcat war

It requires ec2-api-tools ssh scp curl and optionally xml2 to be installed somewhere on your machine.

This one is a real gem:

    1 export EC2_HOME=/location/of/ec2-api-tools-1.3-42584
    2 export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin 
    3 export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/.ec2/secretkeyhere.pem 
    4 export EC2_CERT=~/.ec2/certhere.pem 
    5 export JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home
    6 
    7 export curlflags="-L -v -b cookiejar.txt -c cookiejar.txt"
    8 export appname=war_you_want_deployed_without_extension
    9 
   10 my_instance=`ec2-run-instances ami-1515f67c -k gsg-keypair | grep INSTANCE | awk '{print $2}'`
   11 echo $my_instance 
   12 
   13 remotehost=`ec2-describe-instances $my_instance | grep INSTANCE | awk '{print $4}'`
   14 echo $remotehost 
   15 
   16 while [ "$remotehost" == "pending" ]
   17 do
   18     remotehost=`ec2-describe-instances $my_instance | grep INSTANCE | awk '{print $4}'`
   19     echo $remotehost    
   20 done
   21 
   22 
   23 ec2-authorize default -p 22
   24 ec2-authorize default -p 80
   25 ec2-authorize default -p 1194 -P udp
   26 ec2-authorize default -p 1194 -P tcp
   27 ec2-authorize default -p 8080
   28 ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa-gsg-keypair ubuntu@$remotehost -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no 'sudo apt-get update -y'
   29 ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa-gsg-keypair ubuntu@$remotehost 'sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk -y'
   30 ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa-gsg-keypair ubuntu@$remotehost 'java -version'
   31 ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa-gsg-keypair ubuntu@$remotehost 'wget http://apache.mirror.nexicom.net/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.32/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.32.tar.gz'
   32 ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa-gsg-keypair ubuntu@$remotehost 'tar -zxvf apache-tomcat-6.0.32.tar.gz'
   33 ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa-gsg-keypair ubuntu@$remotehost 'apache-tomcat-6.0.32/bin/startup.sh'
   34 
   35 echo "my_instance=$my_instance"
   36 echo "remotehost=$remotehost"
   37 
   38 echo "curl $curlflags http://$remotehost:8080 | html2"
   39 curl $curlflags http://$remotehost:8080 | html2
   40 
   41 scp -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa-gsg-keypair $appname.war ubuntu@$remotehost:apache-tomcat-6.0.32/webapps/
   42 
   43 echo "curl $curlflags http://$remotehost:8080/$appname | html2"
   44 curl $curlflags http://$remotehost:8080/$appname | html2
   45 
   46 
   47 echo "my_instance=$my_instance"
   48 echo "remotehost=$remotehost"
   49 echo "server should be up at: http://$remotehost:8080/$appname"
   50 
   51 
   52 # 
   53 echo 'dont forget to shut it down when youre done it costs money!'
   54 echo "ec2-terminate-instances ${my_instance}"
   55