ec2ls

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bmc ec2ls lists all EC2 instances in the current AWS profile.

Usage #

bmc ec2ls            # Display as interactive table
bmc ec2ls --json     # Output as JSON array

Table output #

The table columns are configurable via ec2.columns in ~/.config/bmc/config.json. See Configuration.

JSON output #

--json outputs all instances as a JSON array with AWS PascalCase keys, ignoring the columns config:

[
  {
    "InstanceId": "i-0abc123",
    "Name": "prod-web-01",
    "PrivateIpAddress": "10.0.1.5",
    "PublicIpAddress": "",
    "State": "running",
    "Hibernate": "no",
    "Scheduler": "yes",
    "Profile": ""
  }
]

All fields are always present. Pipe into jq for filtering:

bmc ec2ls --json | jq '.[] | select(.State == "running") | .Name'