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Dollop is a thin python wrapper around AWS CloudFormation built using troposphere. It's an easy way to create simply-configured EC2 instances for testing or development purposes.

For more complex EC2 automation scenarios, look into AWS OpsWorks or rolling your own Puppet or Chef environment.

Other IaaS providers might be supported in the future. For now it's just Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• Python 2.7
• Mac or Linux
• Amazon Web Services Account

Coming soon.

An SSH key pair is needed to SSH into the hosts that dollop creates. It's easy to create one using the AWS CLI tools:

aws ec2 create-key-pair --key-name devenvkey --query 'KeyMaterial' --output text > ~/.ssh/devenvkey.pem

It's then possible to use that key pair to SSH into the dollop-generated host:

ssh -i ~/.ssh/devenvkey.pem ubuntu@your-ec2-host

• Look at the CloudFormation output logs
• Look at the output in /var/logs on the EC2 instance

• http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/tutorial-ec2-ubuntu.html
• https://github.com/cloudtools/troposphere
• https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/cloud/cloud-ex-aws/
• http://airbnb.io/cloud-maker/