[PLUG] AWS Scripting using awscli and bash

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

$20 
https://www.amazon.com/AWS-Scripted-Automate-Deployment-Resilient/dp/1503137775/ 
but see http://www.quickstepapps.com/ and download the code from 
http://www.quickstepapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/awsscripted.zip.

I first read this book at the end of 2016 but I had no context for most 
of it.  I just re-read it today, in light of Andy's certification preso 
and some stuff at $WORK, and I thought it might be of interest.

This is a book that automates 100% of deploying "a resilient Web 
Application" in AWS, using the `aws` cli and bash from a Mac laptop. 
The author uses a Mac because it has bash and Windows sucks, but it's 
not clear why the thought of using an actual Linux desktop never seems 
to have occurred to him.  (Shut up Walt.  :-)

It's in...bash.  That's cool because...hey, bash!  But in a way it bugs 
me because Ansible is really a lot more suitable to a lot of what he's 
doing.  There's also a lot in the author's bash code that I don't like, 
and there are some questionable security practices and pretty awful uses 
of `expect`.

BUT...it's bash.  It's easy to see what is going on, and the examples of 
doing really practical things are REALLY, REALLY nice.  It seems there 
are a lot of things you have to do in a certain order, and you need to 
build on previous steps using IDs of things you just created.  And 
that's all in here, in code.

I haven't tried any of the code yet because my API access isn't sorted 
out, but I have no reason to believe the code will not work.

There's enough "book" there to get you going, but most of the later 
chapters are a couple of paragraphs and then just the verbatim code... 
The AWS code is interesting, but it gets into a lot of PHP, Apache and 
other stuff I don't care about.  Still, the practical example is a fine 
idea and I like it.

Enjoy,
JP
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