Custom IP Range Allocation for Machine Learning Workloads on EC2

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When you want to allocate custom IP ranges for your machine learning workloads on Amazon EC2, it's important to have an IP Address Management (IPAM) strategy that allows for the efficient usage of IP addresses and helps prevent overlapping of IP ranges. AWS provides IPAM solutions natively that can be integrated into your infrastructure as code using Pulumi.

In this program, we will create:

1. An **IPAM (IP Address Manager)** which provides us with an IP address space management to automatically provision IP addresses and track usage.
2. An **IPAM Scope** which is a container for the IP address pool within the IPAM.
3. An **IPAM Pool** which is a specific range of IP addresses within a scope.
4. An **IPAM Allocation** which represents the allocation of a CIDR from the pool for usage.
5. An **EC2 Instance** which will be placed inside the VPC using our custom IP allocation for its primary network interface.

This setup will facilitate a better management of IP addresses, especially useful when scaling machine learning workloads where you might have various instances requiring specific IP range allocations for tracking, security, or networking purposes.

Below is a Pulumi program written in Python that demonstrates how to set up these resources. The program includes comments that provide additional information about each step in the process.

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_aws as aws
import pulumi_aws_native as aws_native

# Initialize AWS provider configuration
aws_provider = aws.Provider("aws", region="us-west-2")

# Create an IPAM resource for managing IP addresses.
ipam = aws_native.ec2.Ipam("ipamExample",
    description="Managed IP ranges for EC2 ML workloads",
)

# Create an IPAM scope within the IPAM.
ipam_scope = aws_native.ec2.IpamScope("ipamScopeExample",
    ipam_id=ipam.id,
    description="Primary scope for ML workloads",
)

# Create an IPAM pool inside the scope for a particular region, specifying the address family.
ipam_pool = aws_native.ec2.IpamPool("ipamPoolExample",
    address_family="ipv4",
    ipam_scope_id=ipam_scope.id,
    locale="us-west-2",
)

# Allocate IP range from IPAM pool to be used by EC2 instances.
# You need to ensure that these CIDRs do not overlap with other CIDRs in your network.
ipam_allocation = aws_native.ec2.IpamAllocation("ipamAllocationExample",
    ipam_pool_id=ipam_pool.id,
    netmask_length=24,
    description="CIDR for ML workloads",
)

# Create a VPC where our EC2 instances will reside.
vpc = aws.ec2.Vpc("vpcExample",
    cidr_block=ipam_allocation.cidr, # Here we use the allocated CIDR from the IPAM allocation
    enable_dns_hostnames=True,
    enable_dns_support=True,
)

# Create an EC2 instance inside the VPC with allocated IP range
ec2_instance = aws.ec2.Instance("ec2InstanceExample",
    ami="ami-0c55b159cbfafe1f0", # Replace this with an appropriate AMI for your use case
    instance_type="t2.micro", # Choose an instance type suitable for your workload
    subnet_id=vpc.main_route_table_id, # Place the instance in the subnet of the created VPC
)

# Export the VPC ID and the EC2 instance ID so they can be easily accessed
pulumi.export("vpc_id", vpc.id)
pulumi.export("ec2_instance_id", ec2_instance.id)
```

In this program, we make use of AWS native Pulumi resources to manage all necessary underlying infrastructure to meet the requirements of allocating custom IP ranges and setting up an EC2 instance.

**Make sure to replace placeholder values** like the AMI ID `ami-0c55b159cbfafe1f0` with the specific ID of an AMI suitable for your machine learning workloads. You can find the AMI IDs in the AWS Management Console or through the AWS CLI.

This setup serves as a foundation and you can extend it by adding additional resources like security groups, IAM roles, or more complex networking resources as per your workload requirements.