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Instance Scheduler #18

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robertmassaioli opened this issue Sep 30, 2021 · 3 comments
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Instance Scheduler #18

robertmassaioli opened this issue Sep 30, 2021 · 3 comments

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@robertmassaioli
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Great AWS template! Saves me the effort of having to do this myself.

I have a feature idea: could you integrate an EC2 Scheduler into this such that we only run this EC2 instance at legitimate times that I would actually Play Factorio.

For example, I would only ever play Factorio from 5pm-9pm Weekdays and 7am-Midday on Weekends. If the EC2 instance automatically came up during those times it would prevent me from having to manually update the stack. Cheers!

@robertmassaioli
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Even just documentation for how to use something like https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/instance-scheduler/ in tandem with this would be useful.

@m-chandler
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Hi @robertmassaioli glad you like it.

You probably don't want that instance scheduler from AWS, last time I looked it was expensive to run and regardless, from memory it doesn't support auto scaling groups - it just turns on and off individual instances.

We don't need that much complexity. I should be able to have a look in a little bit (you can look if you like and submit a PR); you probably want to add a couple of AWS::AutoScaling::ScheduledAction resources to the CloudFormation template. One of these resources would let you set the auto scaling group to desired/min/max 1/1/1 at the start of the day which will start the server, and the other 0/0/0 at the end of the day. Note that the Recurrence property will be a cron in UTC time, not your local time.

If you submit a PR, just be sure to make the feature optional via params / update docs etc.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-resource-as-scheduledaction.html

@robertmassaioli
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With the bash scripts that I'm writing I think it's just easier to setup Cron on my home machine to run the start stop commands. Let's close this issue.

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