Assign elastic ip to ec2 instance

[suraj]

I have a Webpagetest private instance (ec2 instance) running on AWS.
Which is able to start and stop the test agents as needed.

I want to assign the elastic IP to these test agents once server starts them
to access our internal server.

Is there a way to assign an elastic ip address to the agent started by private instance ?

[chchrist]

I have the same issue. I took a look at the code and it does not seem to be possible.
Is there another way to test internal servers?

[suraj]

I solved this problem using custom ruby scripts.
I used aws cli to get the running instance and assign elastic ip to it.
i don't know if pmeenan have solved this now.

[chchrist]

So you run webpagetest and then for each agent you give it an EIP? Could you give us more info?

[suraj]

https://aws.amazon.com/cli/
refer this doc, it is very helpful.

[chchrist]

Ah, cool I will give it a go but it would be great to be done from webpagetest

[suraj]

yes, i was also expecting this, but did not get reply from webpagetest so i had to choose the option of writing custom scripts.