How to SSH and run commands in EC2 using boto3?
amazon-ec2, boto3, python
Solution
You can use the following code snippet to ssh to an EC2 instance and run some command from boto3.
import boto3
import botocore
import paramiko
key = paramiko.RSAKey.from_private_key_file(path/to/mykey.pem)
client = paramiko.SSHClient()
client.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
# Connect/ssh to an instance
try:
# Here 'ubuntu' is user name and 'instance_ip' is public IP of EC2
client.connect(hostname=instance_ip, username="ubuntu", pkey=key)
# Execute a command(cmd) after connecting/ssh to an instance
stdin, stdout, stderr = client.exec_command(cmd)
print stdout.read()
# close the client connection once the job is done
client.close()
break
except Exception, e:
print e
Problem
I want to be able to ssh into an EC2 instance, and run some shell commands in it, like this. How do I do it in boto3?