EC2 deploy via SSH

Script that deploys contents of a source folder into a destination folder on a single EC2 instance or across all EC2 instances in an auto scaling group.

Requirements

• Python 3 (tested with 3.8.2. 64bit on MacOS)
• AWS CLI https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/guide/quickstart.html
• Init Python virtual environment (optional but recommended)

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

• Install Python dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

How to run

• Edit config.py and change values so that it matches your environment
  • EC2_IP_ADDRESS or ASG_NAME - specify target EC2 instance or auto scaling group
  • SSH_USER and SSH_KEY - user and SSH key needed for SSH connection
  • SOURCE - source folder on your local machine
  • TARGET - destination folder on your EC2 instances
  • EXCLUDES - list of paths to exclude
• Run the script

python main.py

Other links

• Using Paramiko for SSH and SCP for file transfer. https://medium.com/@keagileageek/paramiko-how-to-ssh-and-file-transfers-with-python-75766179de73
• Paramiko http://docs.paramiko.org/en/stable/api/client.html
• scp https://pypi.org/project/scp/
• boto3 https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/guide/quickstart.html