RollingRestarter

progressively restart ec2 instances under any OpsWorks layer

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Description

Progressively restarts ec2 instances under any Opsworks layer, x machines at a time.

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Installation

npm install aws-rolling-restarter

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Usage

var restarter = require("aws-rolling-restarter");

restarter.init({
  accessKeyId: "Your accessKeyId",
  secretAccessKey: "Your secretAccessKey",
  region: "region where your machines are hosted",
  layerId: "the layer under which the ec2 instances are",
  groupSize: 2, // the amount of ec2 instances you want to restart at a time.
  retryOnSetupFailed: true, // whether or not to attempt stopping and starting again if machine ends up with setup_failed status. Default: false
});

restarter.start();

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Events

• you can add event listeners using the on function like so:

restarter.on("done", () => {
  console.log("done restarting");
});

• Available events:
  • "done"