How to Stop and Start Ec2 instance using Jenkins

In this tutorial you will learn how to Stop and Start AWS Ec2 instance from Jenkins

Steps:1 Create an IAM User with Acess and Secret Key

Steps:2 Create an IAM policy

{

"Version": "2012-10-17",

"Statement": [

{

"Sid": "VisualEditor0",

"Effect": "Allow",

"Action": [

"ec2:StartInstances",

"ec2:StopInstances"

],

"Resource": "*"

}

]

}

Step: 3 Assing IAM policy to IAM user

Steps: 4 Configure IAM Access and Secret in Jenkins Server

Install package on Ubuntu Server

$ sudo apt-get install awscli

# sudo su – jenkins

$ aws configure

Steps: 5 Create Jenkins Job to start and Stop Ec2 instance

Create a parameterized build to pass the Ec2 Instance id and Ec2 State name in Start or Stop

Step: 6 Create Write Shell script in Build Step

Write Shell script in Shell Excute

if [ "$State" = "Start" ]

then

aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids $InstanceID

echo Instance $InstanceID Started

elif [ "$State" = "Stop" ]

then

aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids $InstanceID

echo Instance $InstanceID Stopped

 fi

Steps: 7 Now Start your Jenkins Build to Stop and Start Ec2 Instance 

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