Using RightScale to manage EC2

From KallestadWiki

1 What is RightScale
2 GreaseMonkey
3 Registering your instances
4 Starting an Instance
5 Stopping an Instance
6 Deleting an instance

What is RightScale

Rightscale is a management interface for EC2. They have a free service, and they also have a paid service which includes some pretty nifty features.

Signing up for a free account is pretty easy, and it makes getting started with EC2 a little bit easier.

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GreaseMonkey

Rightscale's site doesn't look so hot in firefox, so I built a simple greasemonkey script to make it look a bit better.

 // ==UserScript==
 // @name           fixdashboard
 // @namespace      steve
 // @description    fixes formatting
 // @include        https://www.rightscale.com/dashboard
 // ==/UserScript==
 var skcontent = document.getElementById('content');
 skcontent.style.paddingLeft = '100px';

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Registering your instances

One of the things I like about the Rightscale interface is that it makes registering instances pretty easy. You simply navigate to your S3 bucket containing the instance, and have it analyze your bucket. Once done, you simply click a button to get it to register.

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