Use of EC2 api of CloudStack

[akrasnov-drv]

Hi,
I see that there is config option to enable EC2 api. Unfortunately documentation says almost nothing about it.
Please advise, how to use it from aws cli.
If you could help to use it from Jenkins with ec2 or even with Eucalyptus plugin would be just great.

So far I tried

AWS_ENDPOINT_URL=http://cs-mgmt:8080/client/api
and
AWS_ENDPOINT_URL=http://cs-mgmt:8080/client/

with admin api/secret keys and got just

aws  ec2 describe-instances

An error occurred (AuthFailure) when calling the DescribeInstances operation: AWS was not able to validate the provided access credentials

Thanks in advance.

[DaanHoogland]

@akrasnov-drv the ec2 api has not been having a maintainer for a decade. You are free to experiment but will be largely on your own. An alternative would be using ansible and terraform. Maybe libcloud, but I am not sure how well maintained that is.

[akrasnov-drv]

I see. Good to know. Thank you.
But if so, any plans to remove this from the code, or still there is a hope someone takes this?

[akrasnov-drv]

Just found https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/installguide/optional_installation.html
and according to it

Supported API Version[](https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/installguide/optional_installation.html#supported-api-version)
The EC2 interface complies with Amazon’s WDSL version dated November 15, 2010, available at http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-11-15/.

The interface is compatible with the EC2 command-line tools EC2 tools v. 1.3.6230, which can be downloaded at http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2-api-tools-1.3-62308.zip.

Then I'm leaving the idea to use it.