EC2-CREATE-ROUTE(1)

📦 version 1.6.14.1, in ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

✨ EC2-CREATE-ROUTE(1) ✨

okay bestie, gather round 🫶 this is ec2-create-route, a User Commands page from the EC2 API command line tools, and it's literally about making a route show up in a route table. no cap. it's giving "networking but make it a group project" 💅

NAME 🎀

ec2-create-route — creates a route in a given route table. that's it, that's the whole job. iconic behavior honestly.

SYNOPSIS 🌸

ec2addrt ([ec2-create-route])
ec2addrt [GENERAL OPTIONS] ROUTE_TABLE -r CIDR { -g GATEWAY | -i INSTANCE | -n NETWORK_INTERFACE | -p VPC_PEERING_CONNECTION }

so yeah, ec2addrt is the little nickname it goes by, and you're gonna hand it a ROUTE_TABLE, a -r CIDR, and then exactly one of those four destination-ish flags in the curly braces. one. not two. not zero. one. 💀

GENERAL NOTES 🦋

  • literally any command option or parameter can be handed a value of - and that means "bestie, read the value for this from stdin instead" 🍓

DESCRIPTION 🌈

creates a route in a given route table. that's the vibe. ✨

ROUTE_TABLE is the ID of the route table you're adding a route to. yes it's positional, yes it comes before your flags, no we don't make the rules (we do, actually, it's in the synopsis).

GENERAL OPTIONS 👑

the universal ones. these apply to basically everything, not just this command. main character options fr fr.

  • -O, --aws-access-key KEY — your AWS Access Key ID. defaults to whatever AWS_ACCESS_KEY is set to in the environment (if it's set at all). 🔑
  • -W, --aws-secret-key KEY — your AWS Secret Access Key. defaults to the value of the AWS_SECRET_KEY environment variable (if set). 🤫
  • -T, --security-token TOKEN — the AWS delegation token. defaults to the value of the AWS_DELEGATION_TOKEN environment variable (if set). 🎟️
  • -K, --private-key KEY — [DEPRECATED] specify KEY as the private key to use. defaults to the value of the EC2_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable (if set). overrides the default. ⚠️ like, it still works, but it's deprecated, so maybe don't build your whole personality around it.
  • -C, --cert CERT — [DEPRECATED] specify CERT as the X509 certificate to use. defaults to the value of the EC2_CERT environment variable (if set). overrides the default. ⚠️ also deprecated. same energy.
  • -U, --url URL — specify URL as the web service URL to use. defaults to https://ec2.amazonaws.com (that's us-east-1) or to whatever EC2_URL is set to (if set). overrides the default. 🌐
  • --region REGION — specify REGION as the web service region to use. this option will override the URL specified by the -U URL option and the EC2_URL environment variable. it defaults to the region specified by the EC2_URL environment variable, or us-east-1 if that environment variable isn't set. 📍
  • -D, --auth-dry-run — check if you can do the thing instead of actually doing the thing. window shopping for permissions, lowkey. 🛍️
  • -v, --verbose — verbose output. it talks more. 🗣️
  • -?, --help — display this help. your emotional support flag. 🫶
  • -H, --headers — display column headers. 📊
  • --debug — display additional debugging information. for when you're going through it. 🔍
  • --show-empty-fields — indicate empty fields. so the blanks don't ghost you. 👻
  • --hide-tags — do not display tags for tagged resources. 🏷️❌
  • --connection-timeout TIMEOUT — specify a connection timeout TIMEOUT, in seconds. ⏱️
  • --request-timeout TIMEOUT — specify a request timeout TIMEOUT, in seconds. ⏳

SPECIFIC OPTIONS 💖

these are the ones that actually make this command this command. the specialest little guys.

  • -g, --gateway GATEWAY — the gateway associated with the route. you must specify this, or -i/--instance, or -n/--network, or -p/--vpc-peering-connection. 🚪
  • -i, --instance INSTANCE — the instance associated with the route. you must specify this, or -g/--gateway, or -n/--network, or -p/--vpc-peering-connection. 💻
  • -n, --network-interface NETWORKINTERFACE — the network interface associated with the route. you must specify this, or -i/--instance, or -g/--gateway, or -p/--vpc-peering-connection. 🔌
  • -p, --vpc-peering-connection VPC_PEERING_CONNECTION — the VPC Peering Connection associated with the route. you must specify this, or -i/--instance, or -n/--network, or -g/--gateway. 🤝
  • -r, --cidr CIDR — the IP range to be routed. the whole point tbh. 📮
ngl, the "must specify this, or…" energy on all four of those is the tool's way of saying pick exactly one target, bestie. it's not a suggestion, it's the rules. 🚨

SEE ALSO 🔗

go read the docs, they're long but they're giving ✨canon✨

and that's the whole page, bestie 🧚💜 sending you off with the receipts: this is from the EC2 API command line tools, version 1.6.14.1, api=2014-05-01, and the page date matches that whole 2014-05-01 situation. slay, go route something responsibly. periodt. 💅🔥

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