Install Scalr Command Line Utilities on CentOS 6.4

For managing cloud clusters we love Scalr both as a hosted service and using the open-source self-hosted version. One of the best features is the easy to install and use command line utilities.

Here are the docs:

http://wiki.scalr.com/display/docs/Scalr+Command+Line+Tools

Here’s the install steps for CentOS 6.4:

1. Install python setuptools package:

2. Install python scalr package:

3. Run scalr configure to setup access credentials. See the docs for details but something like this:

And now your ready to go.