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July 7, 2019

Display Instance ID & IP Address

How to display IP address and Instance ID on web page behind a AWS load balancer.

Add these 2 commands in crontab. The job runs every 5 mins.

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id > /var/www/html/id.txt
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-ipv4 > /var/www/html/ip.txt

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id > /var/www/html/id.txt */5 * * * * /usr/bin/curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-ipv4 > /var/www/html/ip.txt

You can view on the site.

# your domain
http://yourdomain.com/ip.txt
http://yourdomain.com/id.txt
# your server ip address
http://1.1.1.1/ip.txt
http://1.1.1.1/id.txt

# your domain http://yourdomain.com/ip.txt http://yourdomain.com/id.txt # your server ip address http://1.1.1.1/ip.txt http://1.1.1.1/id.txt

Filed Under: Cloud Tagged With: aws, crontab, ec2, instance-id, ip address, metadata

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