AWS Remote Environment in a EC2 Instance Construct Library

This AWS CDK Construct deploy an EC2 Instance per developer to work in a remote environment.

Installation

yarn add @jttc/remote-development

npm install @jttc/remote-development

How to use

import { RemoteEnvironment } from '@jttc/remote-development';

new RemoteEnvironment(this, 'RemoteEnvironment', {
  developer: 'developer-id-name',
  vpcId: 'vpc-xxxxxxxxxxx',
  sshPublicKeyName: 'id_ed25519.pub',
});

Features

• Upload own ssh key created in the developer machine under .ssh folder
• Create an EC2 instance with the following configuration by default:
  • Instance type: t3a.xlarge by default. It can be customizable.
  • Deployed in a Public Subnet.
  • Elastic Ip associated to the instance.
  • EBS volumen of 250 GB by default. It can be customizable.
• Security group to allow ssh connection to the instance.
• The instances has a tag name: "remote-environment-"
• it creates an alamar to check the instance utilization. If in 15 minutes the cpu utilization is less than 2% the instance will be stopped automatically. The developer will go to the console to start it manually.
• It is possible to create a file with instance user data scripts and it will uploaded to execute at initialization point.

Appendix

How to create a ssh key in linux environment

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "[email protected]"