awsmeta
A tool for querying the AWS metadata service
Requires Python 2.6+ (and must be run from an EC2 instance)
usage: awsmeta [-h] [-v API_VERSION] [--timeout TIMEOUT] [--version]
[-n short-name] [--list-names]
[path]
positional arguments:
path
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v API_VERSION Metadata API version (default='latest')
--timeout TIMEOUT HTTP connection timeout in seconds (default: 2)
--version show the awsmeta version
-n short-name, --by-name short-name
Look up a named metadata value
--list-names Print a list of known named metadata keys
Installation
System-wide: sudo pip install awsmeta
User installation: pip install --user awsmeta
(or use a virtualenv)
When installing as root, a bash completion script is installed to /etc/bash_completion.d. As a non-root user, you'll need to install the completion script yourself. You'll find it in the etc/bash_completion.d subdirectory of the installation path.
Packaging
FPM is recommended.
Example:
fpm -s python -t deb \
--iteration <package_revision> \
--after-install=extras/fpm/after-install \
--before-remove=extras/fpm/before-remove \
setup.py