I ran into a situation today where I needed to have a master EC2 instance sync its files to an array of other EC2 instances. Using SSH and rsync makes this trivial except for one thing, how to connect using the PEM file instead of a username / password combo.
The trick is to pass the PEM file to SSH using the rave parameter:
| rsync -rave "ssh -i /path/to/EC2_KEY.pem" /path/to/local/files/* EC2_USER@EC2_INSTANCE:/path/to/remote/files |
Other than everything works the same as typical rsync.
