brkt-cli is a command-line interface to the Bracket Computing service. It produces an encrypted version of an Amazon Machine Image, which can then be launched in EC2.
In order to use the Bracket service, you must be a registered Bracket customer. Email [email protected] for more information.
brkt-cli has the following dependencies:
Use pip to install boto and requests, if they're not already installed:
$ pip install boto
$ pip install requests
The latest release of brkt-cli is 0.9.1. To install this release, run
$ curl -L https://github.com/brkt/brkt-cli/archive/brkt-cli-0.9.1.tar.gz | tar xzv
This will download the brkt-cli source and extract it to a directory called brkt-cli-brkt-cli-0.9.1. To download the most recent brkt-cli code, run
$ curl -L https://github.com/brkt/brkt-cli/archive/master.tar.gz | tar xzv
The master branch has the latest features and bug fixes, but is not as thoroughly tested as the official release.
$ ./brkt encrypt-ami -h
usage: brkt encrypt-ami [-h] [--encryptor-ami ID] --key NAME [--validate-ami]
[--no-validate-ami] --region NAME
AMI_ID
positional arguments:
AMI_ID The AMI that will be encrypted
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--encryptor-ami ID Bracket Encryptor AMI
--key NAME EC2 SSH Key Pair name
--validate-ami Validate AMI properties (default)
--no-validate-ami Don't validate AMI properties
--region NAME AWS region (e.g. us-west-2)
Before running the brkt command, make sure that you've set the AWS environment variables:
$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<access key>
$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<key id>
You'll also need to make sure that your AWS account has the required permissions, such as running an instance, describing an image, and creating snapshots. See iam.json for the complete list of required permissions.
Run brkt encrypt-ami to create a new encrypted AMI based on an existing image:
~/brkt-cli$ ./brkt encrypt-ami --key my-aws-key --region us-east-1 ami-76e27e1e
15:28:37 Starting encryptor session 0ba2065fbeec48e08002c6db1ca5ba46
15:28:38 Launching instance i-703f4c99 to snapshot root disk for ami-76e27e1e
...
15:57:11 Created encrypted AMI ami-07c2a262 based on ami-76e27e1e
15:57:11 Terminating encryptor instance i-753e4d9c
15:57:12 Deleting snapshot copy of original root volume snap-847da3e1
15:57:12 Done.
ami-07c2a262
When the process completes, the new AMI id is written to stdout. All log messages are written to stderr.
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