euscale-create-launch-configuration

Creates a new auto launch configuration with the specified parameters. UNFINISHED DRAFT.

Syntax

euscale-create-launch-configuration
LaunchConfigurationName
--image-id value --instance-type value
[--block-device-mapping "key1=value1,
key2=value2..." ] [--monitoring-enabled/monitoring-disabled ]
[--kernel value ] [--key value ]
[--ramdisk value ][--group value[,value...] ]
[--user-data value ][--user-data-file value ]
			

Options

Option Description Required
LaunchConfigurationName The name of the launch configuration. Yes
--image-id value Unique ID of the Eucalyptus Machine Image (EMI) to use when launching new instances in the auto scaling group. Yes
--instance-type value The type of instance to launch. Yes
--block-device-mappings value1,value2,value3... A list of mappings that specify how block devices are mapped to instances launched in the auto scaling group. No
--monitoring-enabled / --monitoring-disabled Enables or disables euwatch metrics for instances launched in the auto scaling group. No
--kernel value The ID of the kernel associated with the EMI. No
--key value The name of a keypair that new instances in the scaling group should use. No
--ramdisk value The identifier of the ram disk associated with the EMI. No
--group value The name of the security group. No
--user-data value User data to be passed to launched instances. No
--user-data-file value Name of local file containing user data to be passed to launched instances. No

Common Options

Option Description
--show-empty-fields Show empty fields using (nil) as a placeholder to indicate that this data was not requested. Empty fields are not shown by default.
--region value Specify region value as the cloud region to use. You can set this by using the environment variable AWS_DEFAULT_REGION.
-U,--url value Overrides the URL for the service call with the value entered. You can set this by using the environment variable AWS_AUTOSCALING_URL.
-I, --access-key-id value User's access key ID
-S, --secret-key value User's AWS secret Key to use.
--debug Prints what the command sends to the server and what it receives from the server. Use when you're trying to debug Euca2ools.
--debugger Enable interactive debugger on error.
--version Display the version of this tool.
-h,--help Display the manual page for the command.

Output

There is no output from this command if it is successful.

Examples

The follow example creates a launch configuration that specifies that new instances launched from will be of type m1.small and from image ID emi-00123456.

euscale-create-launch-config MyLaunchConfig --image-id emi-00123456 --instance-type m1.small
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