An Introduction to boto's VPC interface

This tutorial is based on the examples in the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Getting Started Guide (http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonVPC/latest/GettingStartedGuide/). In each example, it tries to show the boto request that correspond to the AWS command line tools.

Creating a VPC connection

First, we need to create a new VPC connection:

>>> from boto.vpc import VPCConnection >>> c = VPCConnection()

To create a VPC

Now that we have a VPC connection, we can create our first VPC.

>>> vpc = c.create_vpc('10.0.0.0/24') >>> vpc VPC:vpc-6b1fe402 >>> vpc.id u'vpc-6b1fe402' >>> vpc.state u'pending' >>> vpc.cidr_block u'10.0.0.0/24' >>> vpc.dhcp_options_id u'default' >>>

To create a subnet

The next step is to create a subnet to associate with your VPC.

>>> subnet = c.create_subnet(vpc.id, '10.0.0.0/25') >>> subnet.id u'subnet-6a1fe403' >>> subnet.state u'pending' >>> subnet.cidr_block u'10.0.0.0/25' >>> subnet.available_ip_address_count 123 >>> subnet.availability_zone u'us-east-1b' >>>

To create a customer gateway

Next, we create a customer gateway.

>>> cg = c.create_customer_gateway('ipsec.1', '12.1.2.3', 65534) >>> cg.id u'cgw-b6a247df' >>> cg.type u'ipsec.1' >>> cg.state u'available' >>> cg.ip_address u'12.1.2.3' >>> cg.bgp_asn u'65534' >>>

To create a VPN gateway

>>> vg = c.create_vpn_gateway('ipsec.1') >>> vg.id u'vgw-44ad482d' >>> vg.type u'ipsec.1' >>> vg.state u'pending' >>> vg.availability_zone u'us-east-1b' >>>

Attaching a VPN Gateway to a VPC

>>> vg.attach(vpc.id) >>>

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