<!DOCTYPE html> <!--[if IE 8]><html class="no-js lt-ie9" lang="en" > <![endif]--> <!--[if gt IE 8]><!--> <html class="no-js" lang="en" > <!--<![endif]--> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <title>Use Moto as EC2 backend — Moto 0.4.10 documentation</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="_static/css/theme.css" type="text/css" /> <link rel="index" title="Index" href="genindex.html"/> <link rel="search" title="Search" href="search.html"/> <link rel="top" title="Moto 0.4.10 documentation" href="index.html"/> <script src="_static/js/modernizr.min.js"></script> </head> <body class="wy-body-for-nav" role="document"> <div class="wy-grid-for-nav"> <nav data-toggle="wy-nav-shift" class="wy-nav-side"> <div class="wy-side-scroll"> <div class="wy-side-nav-search"> <a href="index.html" class="icon icon-home"> Moto </a> <div class="version"> 0.4.10 </div> <div role="search"> <form id="rtd-search-form" class="wy-form" action="search.html" method="get"> <input type="text" name="q" placeholder="Search docs" /> <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" /> <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" /> </form> </div> </div> <div class="wy-menu wy-menu-vertical" data-spy="affix" role="navigation" aria-label="main navigation"> <ul> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="getting_started.html">Getting Started with Moto</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> <section data-toggle="wy-nav-shift" class="wy-nav-content-wrap"> <nav class="wy-nav-top" role="navigation" aria-label="top navigation"> <i data-toggle="wy-nav-top" class="fa fa-bars"></i> <a href="index.html">Moto</a> </nav> <div class="wy-nav-content"> <div class="rst-content"> <div role="navigation" aria-label="breadcrumbs navigation"> <ul class="wy-breadcrumbs"> <li><a href="index.html">Docs</a> »</li> <li>Use Moto as EC2 backend</li> <li class="wy-breadcrumbs-aside"> <a href="_sources/ec2_tut.rst.txt" rel="nofollow"> View page source</a> </li> </ul> <hr/> </div> <div role="main" class="document" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Article"> <div itemprop="articleBody"> <div class="section" id="use-moto-as-ec2-backend"> <span id="ec2-tut"></span><h1>Use Moto as EC2 backend<a class="headerlink" href="#use-moto-as-ec2-backend" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <p>This tutorial explains <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">moto.ec2</span></code>‘s features and how to use it. This tutorial assumes that you have already downloaded and installed boto and moto. Before all code examples the following snippet is launched:</p> <div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">boto.ec2</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="nn">moto</span> <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">mock_ec2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">moto</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">mock_ec2</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">mock_ec2</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">start</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">conn</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">boto</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ec2</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">connect_to_region</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"eu-west-1"</span><span class="p">)</span> </pre></div> </div> <div class="section" id="launching-instances"> <h2>Launching instances<a class="headerlink" href="#launching-instances" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>After mock is started, the behavior is the same than previously:</p> <div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">reservation</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">conn</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">run_instances</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'ami-f00ba4'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">reservation</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">instances</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="go">Instance:i-91dd2f32</span> </pre></div> </div> <p>Moto set static or generate random object’s attributes:</p> <div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="nb">vars</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">reservation</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">instances</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">])</span> <span class="go">{'_in_monitoring_element': False,</span> <span class="go"> '_placement': None,</span> <span class="go"> '_previous_state': None,</span> <span class="go"> '_state': pending(0),</span> <span class="go"> 'ami_launch_index': u'0',</span> <span class="go"> 'architecture': u'x86_64',</span> <span class="go"> 'block_device_mapping': None,</span> <span class="go"> 'client_token': '',</span> <span class="go"> 'connection': EC2Connection:ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com,</span> <span class="go"> 'dns_name': u'ec2-54.214.135.84.compute-1.amazonaws.com',</span> <span class="go"> 'ebs_optimized': False,</span> <span class="go"> 'eventsSet': None,</span> <span class="go"> 'group_name': None,</span> <span class="go"> 'groups': [],</span> <span class="go"> 'hypervisor': u'xen',</span> <span class="go"> 'id': u'i-91dd2f32',</span> <span class="go"> 'image_id': u'f00ba4',</span> <span class="go"> 'instance_profile': None,</span> <span class="go"> 'instance_type': u'm1.small',</span> <span class="go"> 'interfaces': [NetworkInterface:eni-ed65f870],</span> <span class="go"> 'ip_address': u'54.214.135.84',</span> <span class="go"> 'item': u'\n ',</span> <span class="go"> 'kernel': u'None',</span> <span class="go"> 'key_name': u'None',</span> <span class="go"> 'launch_time': u'2015-07-27T05:59:57Z',</span> <span class="go"> 'monitored': True,</span> <span class="go"> 'monitoring': u'\n ',</span> <span class="go"> 'monitoring_state': u'enabled',</span> <span class="go"> 'persistent': False,</span> <span class="go"> 'platform': None,</span> <span class="go"> 'private_dns_name': u'ip-10.136.187.180.ec2.internal',</span> <span class="go"> 'private_ip_address': u'10.136.187.180',</span> <span class="go"> 'product_codes': [],</span> <span class="go"> 'public_dns_name': u'ec2-54.214.135.84.compute-1.amazonaws.com',</span> <span class="go"> 'ramdisk': None,</span> <span class="go"> 'reason': '',</span> <span class="go"> 'region': RegionInfo:eu-west-1,</span> <span class="go"> 'requester_id': None,</span> <span class="go"> 'root_device_name': None,</span> <span class="go"> 'root_device_type': None,</span> <span class="go"> 'sourceDestCheck': u'true',</span> <span class="go"> 'spot_instance_request_id': None,</span> <span class="go"> 'state_reason': None,</span> <span class="go"> 'subnet_id': None,</span> <span class="go"> 'tags': {},</span> <span class="go"> 'virtualization_type': u'paravirtual',</span> <span class="go"> 'vpc_id': None}</span> </pre></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="articleComments"> </div> </div> <footer> <hr/> <div role="contentinfo"> <p> © Copyright 2015, Steve Pulec. </p> </div> Built with <a href="http://sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a> using a <a href="https://github.com/snide/sphinx_rtd_theme">theme</a> provided by <a href="https://readthedocs.org">Read the Docs</a>. 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