mariozig

# Assume we are in your home directory
cd ~/

# Clone the repo from GitLab using the `--mirror` option
$ git clone --mirror git@your-gitlab-site.com:mario/my-repo.git

# Change into newly created repo directory
$ cd ~/my-repo.git

# Push to GitHub using the `--mirror` option.  The `--no-verify` option skips any hooks. 

mefellows

$EC2SettingsFile="C:\\Program Files\\Amazon\\Ec2ConfigService\\Settings\\BundleConfig.xml"
$xml = [xml](get-content $EC2SettingsFile)
$xmlElement = $xml.get_DocumentElement()

foreach ($element in $xmlElement.Property)
{
    if ($element.Name -eq "AutoSysprep")
    {
        $element.Value="Yes"
    }

olih

Processing JSON using jq

jq is useful to slice, filter, map and transform structured json data.

Installing jq

On Mac OS

brew install jq

brianredbeard

#!/usr/bin/env python

import boto3
import logging
import sys
from pprint import pprint 
from time import sleep

import botocore.exceptions

steinwaywhw

Preface

In general, AWS services can be accessed using

1. AWS web interface,
2. API libraries in a programming language, such as boto3 for Python 3,
3. AWS command-line interface, i.e. awscli.

I opted for the API library since it is

seantrane

My Visual Studio Code Preferences

The various settings I use in VS Code. Useful, not only for new setups, but also sharing with others.

These preferences are organized in the order you might configure VS Code from scratch.

1. Keyboard Shortcuts (keybindings.json)
2. Settings (settings.json)
3. Extensions
4. Workspace config (projects.code-workspace)

shadiakiki1986

# list latest 10 event names and the next token

aws cloudtrail lookup-events \
      --max-items 10 \
      --lookup-attributes AttributeKey=EventSource,AttributeValue=ec2.amazonaws.com \
      --lookup-attributes AttributeKey=ReadOnly,AttributeValue=false \
      --starting-token "eyJOZXh0VG9rZW4iOiBudWxsLCAiYm90b190cnVuY2F0ZV9hbW91bnQiOiAxMH0=" | \
      jq '.Events[].EventName,.NextToken'
      
"ModifyInstanceAttribute"