Deprecation Notice

This Pre-Built Automation has been deprecated as of 12-13-2023 and will be end of life on 12-13-2024. The capabilities of this Pre-Built Automation have been replaced by the Itential AWS - EC2 - REST Project.

AWS EC2 Instance Creation

Table of Contents

• AWS EC2 Instance Creation
  • Table of Contents
  • Overview
  • Installation Prerequisites
  • Requirements
  • Features
  • How to Install
  • How to Run
    • Input Variables
  • Additional Information

Overview

This Pre-Built integrates with the AWS EC2 Open Source Adapter to create an Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

Installation Prerequisites

Users must satisfy the following pre-requisites:

• Itential Automation Platform
  • ^2023.1
• AWS EC2 Open Source Adapter
  • ^0.6.3

Requirements

This Pre-Built requires the following:

• A AWS EC2 Open Source Adapter
• A AWS account that has adequate permission to create an EC2 instance

Features

The main benefits and features of the Pre-Built are outlined below.

• Allows user to create an EC2 instance by leveraging a simple form to define:
  • Region
  • Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
  • Instance Type (size)
  • VPC ID
  • Security Group ID
  • Subnet ID
  • Key Name

How to Install

To install the Pre-Built:

• Verify you are running a supported version of the Itential Automation Platform (IAP) as listed above in the Requirements section in order to install the Pre-Built.
• The Pre-Built can be installed from within App-Admin_Essential. Simply search for the name of your desired Pre-Built and click the install button (as shown below).

How to Run

Use the following to run the Pre-Built:

• Run the Operations Manager Automation AWS EC2 Instance Creation or call AWS EC2 Instance Creation in a childJob task or as a stand alone workflow.

Input Variables

Example

{
  "region": "Specific Region in which the EC2 instance will be located (for example us-east-1, eu-west-1, etc.)",
  "ami": "Amazon Machine Instance that will be leveraged to create the EC2 instance",
  "instanceType": "Type of EC2 instance to be created (for example T4g, T3, C6g, C5, etc.)",
  "vpcId": "ID associated with your VPC (for example vpc-1a2b3c4d)",
  "securityGroupId": "ID for the security group that you would like to associate with your EC2 instance (for example sg-xxxxxxxx)",
  "subnetId": "ID of the subnet to launch the instance into"
  "keyName": "Name of the key pair"
}

Additional Information

Please use your Itential Customer Success account if you need support when using this Pre-Built.