training_setup.sh

#! /bin/bash

# Required knife ec2, ec2 command line tools, and some AWS_ environment variables

# set-up some varirables
export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.7`
export NUM_INSTANCES=1

# security group
export SG=sg-29d3c14c

# Intermediate workstation
export AMI=ami-3605295e

# launch the instances
# requires the ec2  cli tools
ec2-run-instances  $AMI -t t1.micro --region us-east-1 --instance-count $NUM_INSTANCES --aws-access-key $AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID -W $AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY -k $AWS_KEYPAIR_NAME -g $SG

# wait a minute for the instances to become available
sleep 60

# run a knife ec2 server list to get the IP addresses
knife ec2 server list |grep $AWS_KEYPAIR_NAME | grep $AMI | grep running |awk '{print $2}'