RDS 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 RDSInstanceControlPanel construct. Let your L1 support or even non-technical colleagues handle the basic operations around RDS database instances.

Features

CPU Utilization chart for the past hour
Status information
- Instance name
- Instance status
- Instance class
- Engine version
- Endpoint
- Port
- Publicly accessible
Actions
- Start - calls StartDBInstance RDS API to start the instance if it’s stopped
- Stop - calls StopDBInstance RDS API to stop the instance if it’s running
- Reboot - calls RebootDBInstance RDS API to reboot the instance if it’s running

Preview

RDS Instance Control Panel App preview

Usage

In case you create RDS DB instance in CDK

import * as cdk from 'aws-cdk-lib'
import { InstanceClass, InstanceSize, InstanceType, SubnetType, Vpc } from 'aws-cdk-lib/aws-ec2'
import { DatabaseInstance, DatabaseInstanceEngine } from 'aws-cdk-lib/aws-rds'
import { Buttonize } from 'buttonize/cdk'
import { RDSInstanceControlPanel } 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 instance = new DatabaseInstance(this, 'RdsInstance', {
      engine: DatabaseInstanceEngine.POSTGRES,
      vpc: defaultVpc,
      instanceType: InstanceType.of(InstanceClass.T4G, InstanceSize.MICRO),
      instanceIdentifier: 'my-little-test-buttonize-db',
      vpcSubnets: {
        subnetType: SubnetType.PUBLIC
      }
    })

    new RDSInstanceControlPanel(this, 'ControlPanel', {
      instance
    })
  }
}

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

import * as cdk from 'aws-cdk-lib'
import { Buttonize } from 'buttonize/cdk'
import { RDSInstanceControlPanel } 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 RDSInstanceControlPanel(this, 'ControlPanel', {
      instanceArn: 'arn:aws:rds:<region>:<account-number>:db:<instance-name>'
    })
  }
}