@dwmkerr/boxes
Advanced tools
Quickly turn on, turn off, list and connect to your AWS instances. Great for saving costs by running servers in the cloud and starting them only when needed.
TODO demo recording
Tag any AWS instance you want to control with a tag named boxes.boxid:
TODO smaller screenshot
In this screenshot I have two instances tagged, one with the value steambox (used for gaming) and one with torrentbox (for fast BitTorrent downloads).
Install the Boxes CLI with:
npm install @dwmkerr/boxes
You can now list your boxes with list and start or stop them with start and stop:
Clone the repo, install dependencies, link, then the boxes command will be available:
git clone git@github.com:dwmkerr/boxes.git
npm link
# Now run boxes commands such as:
boxes list
# Clean up when you are done...
npm unlink
The CLI uses the current local AWS configuration and will manage any EC2 instances with a tag named boxes.boxid. The value of the tag is the identifier used to manage the specific box.
Boxes will use whatever is the currently set local AWS configuration.
Boxes manages EC2 instances that have a tag with the name boxes.boxid.
The recording at the top of the README file is an SVG based on an asciinema recording that has been converted to SVG with svg-term-cli.
To update the recording:
brew install asciinemaTo record a Tmux session, you will need to start detached from Tmux and then attach. You can do this by hand, simply using tmux attach, but this adds some noise to the beginning of the recording. A better way is to use the command below:
asciinema rec --command "tmux attach [-t session-name]"
## TODO
Quick and dirty task-list.
- [ ] npm badge download link
- [ ] screen recording of boxes list / stop / start / connect
- [ ] document how 'connect' works
- [ ] build / lint / test / deploy pipeline
- [ ] add support for OpenVPN server to save $10/month
- [ ] torrent box is not mounting larger volume for storage
- [ ] Cost management tags configuration to allow pricing info
- [ ] docs: make AWS screenshot a bit smaller in readme
- [ ] docs: create and share blogpost
FAQs
Quick access to your cloud instances.
The npm package @dwmkerr/boxes receives a total of 2 weekly downloads. As such, @dwmkerr/boxes popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @dwmkerr/boxes demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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