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python add current IP address to ec2
#!/usr/bin/python
import urllib2
from boto.ec2.connection import EC2Connection
try:
from django.conf import settings
except ImportError:
class settings:
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = 'YOUR_ACCESS_KEY'
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = 'YOUR_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'
def findIP():
'''
simple python script to return your public IP address using whatismyip.com
if executed from command line will display IP
Returns your IP address. Includes setting the header to match the request
see http://www.whatismyip.com/faq/automation.asp
'''
headers = { 'User-Agent' : 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0)' \
+ ' Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0' }
return = urllib2.urlopen(
urllib2.Request(
"http://automation.whatismyip.com/n09230945.asp",
None, headers )
).read()
def addIPSecurity(port=22, group=0):
conn = EC2Connection(
settings.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
settings.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY)
conn.get_all_security_groups()
rs = conn.get_all_security_groups()
sg = rs[group]
pub_ip = findIP()
pub_ip_range = '%s0/24' % pub_ip[:-len(pub_ip.split('.')[-1])]
return sg.authorize(ip_protocol='tcp', from_port=port, to_port=port,
cidr_ip=pub_ip_range)
if __name__=="__main__":
addIPSecurity()
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