CreateInstance - OpsWorks

CreateInstance

Creates an instance in a specified stack. For more information, see Adding an Instance to a Layer.

Required Permissions: To use this action, an IAM user must have a Manage permissions level for the stack, or an attached policy that explicitly grants permissions. For more information on user permissions, see Managing User Permissions.

Request Syntax

{ "AgentVersion": "string", "AmiId": "string", "Architecture": "string", "AutoScalingType": "string", "AvailabilityZone": "string", "BlockDeviceMappings": [ { "DeviceName": "string", "Ebs": { "DeleteOnTermination": boolean, "Iops": number, "SnapshotId": "string", "VolumeSize": number, "VolumeType": "string" }, "NoDevice": "string", "VirtualName": "string" } ], "EbsOptimized": boolean, "Hostname": "string", "InstallUpdatesOnBoot": boolean, "InstanceType": "string", "LayerIds": [ "string" ], "Os": "string", "RootDeviceType": "string", "SshKeyName": "string", "StackId": "string", "SubnetId": "string", "Tenancy": "string", "VirtualizationType": "string" }

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

AgentVersion

The default AWS OpsWorks Stacks agent version. You have the following options:

  • INHERIT - Use the stack's default agent version setting.

  • version_number - Use the specified agent version. This value overrides the stack's default setting. To update the agent version, edit the instance configuration and specify a new version. AWS OpsWorks Stacks installs that version on the instance.

The default setting is INHERIT. To specify an agent version, you must use the complete version number, not the abbreviated number shown on the console. For a list of available agent version numbers, call DescribeAgentVersions. AgentVersion cannot be set to Chef 12.2.

Type: String

Required: No

AmiId

A custom AMI ID to be used to create the instance. The AMI should be based on one of the supported operating systems. For more information, see Using Custom AMIs.

Note

If you specify a custom AMI, you must set Os to Custom.

Type: String

Required: No

Architecture

The instance architecture. The default option is x86_64. Instance types do not necessarily support both architectures. For a list of the architectures that are supported by the different instance types, see Instance Families and Types.

Type: String

Valid Values: x86_64 | i386

Required: No

AutoScalingType

For load-based or time-based instances, the type. Windows stacks can use only time-based instances.

Type: String

Valid Values: load | timer

Required: No

AvailabilityZone

The instance Availability Zone. For more information, see Regions and Endpoints.

Type: String

Required: No

BlockDeviceMappings

An array of BlockDeviceMapping objects that specify the instance's block devices. For more information, see Block Device Mapping. Note that block device mappings are not supported for custom AMIs.

Type: Array of BlockDeviceMapping objects

Required: No

EbsOptimized

Whether to create an Amazon EBS-optimized instance.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

Hostname

The instance host name. The following are character limits for instance host names.

  • Linux-based instances: 63 characters

  • Windows-based instances: 15 characters

Type: String

Required: No

InstallUpdatesOnBoot

Whether to install operating system and package updates when the instance boots. The default value is true. To control when updates are installed, set this value to false. You must then update your instances manually by using CreateDeployment to run the update_dependencies stack command or by manually running yum (Amazon Linux) or apt-get (Ubuntu) on the instances.

Note

We strongly recommend using the default value of true to ensure that your instances have the latest security updates.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

InstanceType

The instance type, such as t2.micro. For a list of supported instance types, open the stack in the console, choose Instances, and choose + Instance. The Size list contains the currently supported types. For more information, see Instance Families and Types. The parameter values that you use to specify the various types are in the API Name column of the Available Instance Types table.

Type: String

Required: Yes

LayerIds

An array that contains the instance's layer IDs.

Type: Array of strings

Required: Yes

Os

The instance's operating system, which must be set to one of the following.

  • A supported Linux operating system: An Amazon Linux version, such as Amazon Linux 2, Amazon Linux 2018.03, Amazon Linux 2017.09, Amazon Linux 2017.03, Amazon Linux 2016.09, Amazon Linux 2016.03, Amazon Linux 2015.09, or Amazon Linux 2015.03.

  • A supported Ubuntu operating system, such as Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, or Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

  • CentOS Linux 7

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

  • A supported Windows operating system, such as Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Base, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with SQL Server Express, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with SQL Server Standard, or Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with SQL Server Web.

  • A custom AMI: Custom.

Not all operating systems are supported with all versions of Chef. For more information about the supported operating systems, see AWS OpsWorks Stacks Operating Systems.

The default option is the current Amazon Linux version. If you set this parameter to Custom, you must use the CreateInstance action's AmiId parameter to specify the custom AMI that you want to use. Block device mappings are not supported if the value is Custom. For more information about how to use custom AMIs with AWS OpsWorks Stacks, see Using Custom AMIs.

Type: String

Required: No

RootDeviceType

The instance root device type. For more information, see Storage for the Root Device.

Type: String

Valid Values: ebs | instance-store

Required: No

SshKeyName

The instance's Amazon EC2 key-pair name.

Type: String

Required: No

StackId

The stack ID.

Type: String

Required: Yes

SubnetId

The ID of the instance's subnet. If the stack is running in a VPC, you can use this parameter to override the stack's default subnet ID value and direct AWS OpsWorks Stacks to launch the instance in a different subnet.

Type: String

Required: No

Tenancy

The instance's tenancy option. The default option is no tenancy, or if the instance is running in a VPC, inherit tenancy settings from the VPC. The following are valid values for this parameter: dedicated, default, or host. Because there are costs associated with changes in tenancy options, we recommend that you research tenancy options before choosing them for your instances. For more information about dedicated hosts, see Dedicated Hosts Overview and Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts. For more information about dedicated instances, see Dedicated Instances and Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances.

Type: String

Required: No

VirtualizationType

The instance's virtualization type, paravirtual or hvm.

Type: String

Required: No

Response Syntax

{ "InstanceId": "string" }

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

InstanceId

The instance ID.

Type: String

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

ResourceNotFoundException

Indicates that a resource was not found.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ValidationException

Indicates that a request was not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: