3 years ago

With the rapid adoption of cloud nowadays, the cloud operations team in a medium to large sized software company has faced the challenges of managing cloud resources for all internal development teams. Once the access was provisioned, the next challenge was to ensure that a shared responsibility model (such as the one offered by all major cloud service providers) is followed where the teams who are provisioned access and the cloud operations team share responsibility of managing the lifetime and billing of those resources.

Sharing EC2 SSH Keys with the users is still an inconvenience for cloud administrators as they have to be shared separately using a secure medium.

Cloud-instance-manager is a web based application that we have developed keeping an account of all the above issues, it simplifies the management of EC2 machines for all the stakeholders by providing, Cloud Instance manager comes with two interfaces: an Admin and Developer interface.

Admin will provision the instance in the cloud and make that user’s account in the cloud instance manager in case it’s a new user.