Getting Started

Project Flow of SkySaver Schedules

SkySaver is about making it easier for users to set schedules for their AWS EC2, Lambda, ASG, and RDS resources. The typical flow is integrating an AWS account with SkySaver, Configuring the SkySaver project and Enabling the scheduler on resource types, Adding Schedules to the project, Tagging your AWS resources for Scheduling, and then relaxing as every resource scheduled will automatically be managed by SkySaver to meet that schedule. A user can have One schedule specifically for work hours, or they could have hundreds of schedules for every possible niche case, the power is in the users hands.

Logging in to SkySaver

SkySaver utilizes Auth0 on the backend for the signing into the application. If you do not already have an Auth0 account tied to the email that you are utilizing for SkySaver then please go through the Sign Up process for Auth0 before trying to login to SkySaver. If you do already have an Auth0 account tied to the email that you are utilizing for SkySaver then please sign in utilizing your Auth0 credentials.

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  1. Log In to the application

Integrate your AWS Account with SkySaver

Follow our guide on adding an AWS account to SkySaver, this involves creating an IAM Role for SkySaver as well as giving permissions to that role, we include a fully functional CloudFormation template for ease of use. Add AWS Accounts

Configuring your first project

Selecting your project

In the top right of the portal view you can select your project if it is not already selected. You can create multiple projects if you desire. Project Selection Project Selection

Project Defaults Project Defaults

Enable the services you want the scheduler service to act on.

This is a project level toggle where you can easily toggle on or off scheduling if needed for any reason.

Add any additional regions you want the scheduler to look in.

By default the system will look at us-east-1 but any region is valid here.

Ensure that you note the Default Tag for the project and the Default Role Name.

When creating Schedules with SkySaver the Default Tag and the Default Role Name will always be pulled into the new Schedule by default, and can then be changed as needed. Once you’ve updated your project, click “update”

Add Schedules

Add Tags to Resources

Here is where you will attach tags to your resources to enable SkySaver to manage them. In SkySaver the Tagging of AWS resources is done following the Key: Value Method. The deafult Tag Name is SkySaverSchedule which will be the Key for SkySaver tags. And the Value of the tag will be the name of the Schedule.

For example, if you are utilizing the default Tag Name of SkySaverSchedule and have created a schedule called us-etc-working-hours then you will add a tag to any resources that are utilizing that schedule with the Key of SkySaverSchedule and the Value of us-etc-working-hours

If you have completed the above, then you now have tag based resource utilization in place and should understand the basic flow of adding tags to resources, and adding schedules to your SkySaver scheduler account.

Add Members

Here you can learn to add additional members to be users within your SkySaver portal.