euca-associate-address

Associates an elastic IP address with an instance. This assumes that the address you supplied has already been allocated with the euca-allocate-address command.

Syntax

euca-associate-address  -i instance_id [-n interface] [-a allocation] [-p address] [--allow-reallocation] ip

Options

Option Description Required
-i,--instance Unique identifier for a running instance to associate the address with. Yes
-n,--network-interface interface (VPC only) The network interface to associate with the address. Yes, if VPC
-a,--allocation-id alloc (VPC only) The VPC allocation ID. No
-p,--private-ip-address address (VPC only) The private address to associate with the address being associated in the VPC. This defaults to the primary private IP address. No
--allow-reassociation (VPC only) Allow the address to be associated even if it is already associated with another instance. No
ip Elastic IP address to associate Yes

Common Options

Option Description
--show-empty-fields Show empty fields as "(nil)".
--region user@region Region and/or user name to search when looking up config file data. Only valid for EC2 endpoints.
-U,--url url URL of the cloud service to connect to. For administrative commands, this should be <ip_address>:8773/services/Empyrean.
-I,--access-key-id key_id User's access key ID.
-S,--secret-key secret_key User's secret key.
--security-token token User's security token.
--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.
-h,--help Display the manual page for the command.
--version Display the version of this tool.

Output

Example

euca-associate-address -i i-3C66428A 86.75.30.9
ADDRESS 86.75.30.9   i-3C66428A
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