Build on AWS Weekly - S1 E3 - Command Line Magic

Welcome to episode 3 of Build On Weekly! 🥳 Today Jacquie and Darko dive into installing various CLI tools and Utilities for AWS. Tools like the AWS CLI and AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit).

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Deployed Weekly

Today, on Deployed Weekly, we will cover a Threat Modeling workshop, discuss IAM roles anywhere and the newly released Global tables for Amazon Neptune. We will also check out a blog post on tracking down NAT Gateway costs, and wrap up with some PowerTools for your Lambda functions!

Links from the discussion:

• Community Blog Post, by Geoffrey Wiseman - On tracking down NAT Costs: https://dev.to/aws-builders/nat-gateway-charges-from-ecs-service-restart-3p1c
• IAM Roles anywhere: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/07/aws-identity-access-management-iam-roles-anywhere-workloads-outside-aws/
• Threat modeling workshop: https://catalog.workshops.aws/threatmodel/en-US
• Amazon Neptune Global Database: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/07/amazon-neptune-global-database/
• AWS Lambda Powertools for TypeScript is now GA:https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/simplifying-serverless-best-practices-with-aws-lambda-powertools-for-typescript/

Weekly Builds - AWS CLI & CDK Up and Running

Today on Weekly build, we install and configure the AWS CLI and AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) on Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

AWS CLI:

⚠️ Do NOTE: We are installing version 2.7.1 in this example. The version may be different by the time you read this!

Here are the steps needed to install the AWS CLI on:

• Linux

  • You must be able to extract or "unzip" the downloaded package. If your operating system doesn't have the built-in unzip command, use an equivalent.
  • The AWS CLI version 2 uses glibc, groff, and less. These are included by default in most major distributions of Linux.
  • We support the AWS CLI version 2 on 64-bit versions of recent distributions of CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux 1, Amazon Linux 2 and Linux ARM.
  • Because AWS doesn't maintain third-party repositories, we can’t guarantee that they contain the latest version of the AWS CLI.

  curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64-2.7.1.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
  unzip awscliv2.zip
  sudo ./aws/install
  

• Mac

  • You know which release of the AWS CLI version 2 you'd like to install. For a list of versions, see the AWS CLI version 2 changelog on GitHub.
  • We support the AWS CLI version 2 on Apple-supported versions of 64-bit macOS.
  • Because AWS doesn't maintain third-party repositories, we can’t guarantee that they contain the latest version of the AWS CLI.

  curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2-2.7.1.pkg" -o "AWSCLIV2.pkg"
  sudo installer -pkg AWSCLIV2.pkg -target /
  

• Windows

  • You know which release of the AWS CLI version 2 you'd like to install. For a list of versions, see the AWS CLI version 2 changelog on GitHub.
  • A 64-bit version of Windows XP or later.
  • Admin rights to install software

  msiexec.exe /i https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2-2.7.1.msi
  

Sharing is caring:

Links from the discussion:

• AWS CLI: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html
• AWS CDK: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/v2/guide/getting_started.html
• AWS S3 Presign objects: https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/s3/presign.html

🐦 Reach out to the hosts and guests:

Jacquie: https://twitter.com/devopsjacquie
Darko: https://twitter.com/darkosubotica