Automation

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) ...