Re: [PLUG] AWS Scripting using awscli and bash

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

On 03/16/2018 10:32 AM, Ronald P Guilmet wrote:
> You can access the API with JavaScript, Node.js, C/C++, Python, Java. 
> That's just off the top of my head. I have the book JP is talking about. 
> The author says he uses Bash to prototype. He says he wants to know if 
> it works before he uses another language. There is a lot of bash to be 
> written, so I'm not sure about the saving time part.
I have to agree with that, even being a Bash guy.  And like I said 
originally, a lot of what he's doing is better done in a tool like 
Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt, etc.  There's a *reason* why those tools 
exist and everyone doesn't just use Bash!

Later,
JP
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