volcengine-compute-ecs

What This Skill Does

The volcengine-compute-ecs skill is a specialized automation tool designed for managing Elastic Compute Service (ECS) resources within the Volcengine ecosystem. It acts as an interface between the OpenClaw agent and the Volcengine Cloud API, enabling seamless interaction with your virtual infrastructure. The skill supports a broad range of operations, from simple status queries and inventory auditing to complex lifecycle management tasks like batch reboots, instance start/stop commands, and automated resource troubleshooting. By abstracting the complexities of the Volcengine API, this skill allows users to maintain their cloud fleet using natural language commands, ensuring that operations remain consistent, reproducible, and highly auditable.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal or command interface:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/cinience/volcengine-compute-ecs

Ensure that your OpenClaw environment is properly authenticated with your Volcengine API credentials (Access Key and Secret Key) before running the command to ensure the agent has the necessary permissions to interface with your cloud resources.

Use Cases

• Inventory Auditing: Quickly generate a list of all running, stopped, or pending instances within specific regions to track compute costs.
• Emergency Incident Response: Trigger a bulk restart or troubleshooting script on a specific set of instances during an outage.
• Operational Automation: Schedule daily stop/start cycles for non-production development environments to optimize cloud spending.
• Lifecycle Management: Automate the provisioning and teardown of temporary test environments linked by specific metadata tags.

Example Prompts

1. "List all ECS instances currently running in the ap-singapore-1 region and group them by their project tags."
2. "Perform a dry-run check on the production cluster instances and report any potential configuration issues before I run the reboot command."
3. "Stop all instances tagged with 'environment: sandbox' to save costs for the weekend."

Tips & Limitations

• Safety First: Always use the dry-run flag when executing lifecycle operations on production instances to verify the target list before committing changes.
• Scope Management: When performing batch operations, always define your scope clearly using instance IDs or tag filters to prevent unintended modifications to critical infrastructure.
• Audit Logs: The skill generates detailed logs for every mutation; review these logs regularly to ensure compliance with internal infrastructure policies.
• Read-Only Priority: If you are unsure of the current state of your instances, start with a list command to verify the system's baseline state before attempting any write-heavy operations.