EC2 Instance Control Panel

“Have you tried turning it off and on again?” That’s usually the quickest and the most efficient advice you can tell someone debugging a problem. Sometimes there are things between heaven an earth that can’t be explained but can be solved by restarting a server.

For these cases Buttonize brings EC2InstanceControlPanel construct. Let your L1 support or even non-technical colleagues handle the basic operations around EC2 instances.

Features

CPU Utilization chart for the past hour
Status information
- Instance name
- Instance state
- Instance type
- Public DNS Name
- Public IP Address
Actions
- Start - calls StartInstances EC2 API to start the instance if it’s stopped
- Stop - calls StopInstances EC2 API to stop the instance if it’s running
- Reboot - calls RebootInstances EC2 API to reboot the instance if it’s running

Preview

EC2 Instance Control Panel App preview

Usage

In case you create EC2 instance in CDK

import * as cdk from 'aws-cdk-lib'
import { AmazonLinuxImage, Instance, InstanceClass, InstanceSize, InstanceType, Vpc } from 'aws-cdk-lib/aws-ec2'
import { Buttonize } from 'buttonize/cdk'
import { EC2InstanceControlPanel } from 'buttonize/library'
import { Construct } from 'constructs'

export class CdkStack extends cdk.Stack {
  constructor(scope: Construct, id: string, props?: cdk.StackProps) {
    super(scope, id, props)

    Buttonize.init(this, { apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' })

    const defaultVpc = Vpc.fromLookup(this, 'VPC', { isDefault: true })

    const ec2Instance = new Instance(this, 'EC2Instance', {
      instanceType: InstanceType.of(InstanceClass.T3, InstanceSize.MICRO),
      machineImage: new AmazonLinuxImage(),
      vpc: defaultVpc
    })

    new EC2InstanceControlPanel(this, 'ControlPanel', {
      instance: ec2Instance
    })
  }
}

In case you create EC2 outside of the CDK scope and know only instance’s ARN

import * as cdk from 'aws-cdk-lib'
import { Buttonize } from 'buttonize/cdk'
import { EC2InstanceControlPanel } from 'buttonize/library'
import { Construct } from 'constructs'

export class CdkStack extends cdk.Stack {
  constructor(scope: Construct, id: string, props?: cdk.StackProps) {
    super(scope, id, props)

    Buttonize.init(this, { apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' })

    new EC2InstanceControlPanel(this, 'ControlPanel', {
      instanceArn:
        'arn:aws:ec2:<region>:<account-number>:instance/<instance-id>'
    })
  }
}