Auto Scaling With Amazon EC2 - II

We created an Amazon ELB as discussed here. Let's see more of it now.

Appserver
The load balancer we have created listens on the port 80 and 443 and forwards requests to 9763 and 9443. Say now we need to delete the listeners.

elb-delete-lb-listeners autoscalelb --lb-ports 80 443 -K KEY.pem -C CERT.pem  
    Warning: Deleting a LoadBalancer listener can lead to service disruption to
    any customers connected to the LoadBalancer listener. Are you sure you want
    to delete this LoadBalancer listener? [Ny]N
elb-delete-lb-listeners:  User stopped the execution of elb-delete-lb-listeners.

(Providing 'N' stops the action. You can proceed deleting the listener, by giving 'y' as the response.)

You can also create more listeners

elb-create-lb-listeners autoscalelb --headers --listener "lb-port=8280,instance-port=9763,protocol=http" --listener "lb-port=8243,instance-port=9443,protocol=tcp" -K KEY.pem -C CERT.pem

OK-Creating LoadBalancer Listener

The load balancer now listens on the port 8280 and 8243 and forwards requests to 9763 and 9443.

Now what will happen if you forcefully try to kill the instances initiated by the ELB? It will create one more identical instance immediately, handling the failover case.


Fail over

pradeeban@pradeeban:~/pem$ as-describe-auto-scaling-groups autoscleasg -K KEY.pem -C CERT.pem

Initially,

AUTO-SCALING-GROUP  autoscleasg  autoscalelc  us-east-1c  autoscalelb  1  10  1

INSTANCE  i-xxxxxxxx  us-east-1c  InService  Healthy  autoscalelc

When we killed the instance.

AUTO-SCALING-GROUP  autoscleasg  autoscalelc  us-east-1c  autoscalelb  1  10  1

INSTANCE  i-xxxxxxxx  us-east-1c  Terminating  Unhealthy  autoscalelc

INSTANCE  i-yyyyyyyy  us-east-1c  Pending      Healthy    autoscalelc

After a few seconds,

AUTO-SCALING-GROUP  autoscleasg  autoscalelc  us-east-1c  autoscalelb  1  10  1

INSTANCE  i-yyyyyyyy  us-east-1c  InService  Healthy  autoscalelc

Sounds cool.. So how to terminate the instances that ELB creates?


Shall we try deleting?

pradeeban@pradeeban:~/pem$ as-delete-auto-scaling-group autoscleasg -K KEY.pem -C CERT.pem

    Are you sure you want to delete this AutoScalingGroup? [Ny]y

as-delete-auto-scaling-group:  Service error: You cannot delete an AutoScalingGroup while there are instances

 still in the group.  AWSRequestId:aaaaaaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaaaaaa

Min = Max = 0
ok! So let's stop auto-scaling process by setting the minimum and maximum to zero.

pradeeban@pradeeban:~/pem$ as-update-auto-scaling-group autoscleasg --min-size 0 --max-size 0 -K KEY.pem -C CERT.pem

OK-Updated AutoScalingGroup

pradeeban@pradeeban:~/pem$ as-describe-auto-scaling-groups autoscleasg -K KEY.pem -C CERT.pem

AUTO-SCALING-GROUP  autoscleasg  autoscalelc  us-east-1c  autoscalelb  0  0  0

INSTANCE  i-yyyyyyyy  us-east-1c  InService  Healthy  autoscalelc

Delete
Now let's try to delete the auto-scaling group once more -- yes, as we have set it to zero, it should be possible now.

pradeeban@pradeeban:~/pem$ as-delete-auto-scaling-group autoscleasg -K KEY.pem -C CERT.pem

  
    Are you sure you want to delete this AutoScalingGroup? [Ny]y

as-delete-auto-scaling-group:  Service error: You cannot delete an AutoScalingGroup while there are scaling activities in progress for that group.

 AWSRequestId:bbbbbbbb-bbbb-bbbb-bbbb-bbbbbbbb

oh.. Let's wait a minute for that scaling down activity to finish!
Again!

pradeeban@pradeeban:~/pem$ as-delete-auto-scaling-group autoscleasg -K KEY.pem -C CERT.pem

          

    Are you sure you want to delete this AutoScalingGroup? [Ny]y

OK-Deleted AutoScalingGroup

Done!

Now, let's check once more whether we have deleted it properly.. ;)

pradeeban@pradeeban:~/pem$ as-describe-auto-scaling-groups autoscleasg -K KEY.pem -C CERT.pem

No AutoScalingGroups found

Yes, we have deleted the Amazon ELB along with the scaling group of nodes it created.  (We are sinners! ;))