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newsapps / beeswithmachineguns

A utility for arming (creating) many bees (micro EC2 instances) to attack (load test) targets (web applications).
http://apps.chicagotribune.com/
MIT License
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-z flag does not work as expected #70

Open ahawkins opened 11 years ago

ahawkins commented 11 years ago

Thanks for this project. We are having problems operating in eu-west-1. It seems the -z flag does not work with all EC2 queries. The only way for us to get bees to work was to create a new key pair, and security group in the default zone.

cosmin commented 11 years ago

What type of problem are you having? Note that if you supply -z you will also need to override the AMI since the AMI being used is region specific.

kevinschaul commented 10 years ago

I'm having issues even when I don't specify the zone:

$ bees up -s 1 -k key

# ...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Response><Errors><Error><Code>InvalidParameterValue</Code><Message>Invalid availability zone: [us-east-1d]</Message></Error></Errors><RequestID>80b47c16-039d-48bf-8aa5-ddd3b6305bc6</RequestID></Response>
cosmin commented 10 years ago

That looks odd, because us-east-1d should definitely be a valid availability zone in us-east-1. If you have the EC2 command line tools or the the new awscli installed, can you list the availability zones available to you in us-east-1?

kevinschaul commented 10 years ago

According to the EC2 command line tools, I've only got us-east-1a, us-east-1b and us-east-1c. Using one of those works.

But I really want to use something in us-west-1, and that doesn't work for me, even though us-west-1b and us-west-1c are both available. Same error. beeswithmachineguns seems to be using the option correctly, though. Doesn't seem like a bug on your end.

ludovicbret commented 10 years ago

If you want to use another region, you will have to change the ec2 url endpoint (ex: for europe http://ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com)