Automation

In this article, I will describe my current pets projects. These are mainly excuses to learn something new for me, or exercises to go deeper in particular technologies, but could be (I hope) useful for you too. Don’t hesitate to issue enhancements, bugfix (PR), or just give a try to give me your thoughts. Instance Watcher :construction_worker: Tech: Lambda, Python, Serverless Application Model (SAM), SES This app will scan your AWS Account against all EC2 region worldwide and notify you by email when you have some running EC2 instances. It’s useful for non-production environments that you need to monitor. Usecase: labs/training, sandbox accounts. ...

Yesterday, I was attending a meetup from the great French AWS Users Group, and Henri shows us a great new project where he is working on, it’s called: awless. awless is a great alternative of the official AWS CLI. It’s written in Go, and available on Apache license on Github. awless will enhance your experience with CLI with key features like: autocompletion, offline mode (--local), template support, revert capabilities, etc… Using well-known syntax: subject, verb, complement: it simplifies drastically the daily operations with the CLI, for example: ...

[30/04/17] Update: Following this post, I’ve pushed this script to Github if you want to contribute. I was trying to use Office Deployment Tool (ODT) using the relative path for our Office 2016 ProPlus deployment (On USB Key & Hard Drive). As USB Keys are mounted each time with different letters depending on how many devices already mounted. I was stuck cause ODT XML Configuration file does not support the relative path. ...

For automation purposes, I needed a tool to interact with the REST API of Atlassian Jira over Powershell commands. I found a great module developed by replicaJunction and contributors on Github called PSJira. Installation You will need Powershell >=3.0 Install-Module PSJira (if you have Package Management Installed Module) and for sure, an Atlassian Jira instance First-Run 1 Set-JiraConfigServer -Server 'https://my.jira.server.com:port' Setup jira credentials in .ps1 Encrypt credentials (Once) Do this with the Windows session of the user who will launch the .ps1 scripts (service account) ...