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# Get the ID and security principal of the current user account
$myWindowsID=[System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()
$myWindowsPrincipal=new-object System.Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal($myWindowsID)
 
# Get the security principal for the Administrator role
$adminRole=[System.Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole]::Administrator
 
# Check to see if we are currently running "as Administrator"
if ($myWindowsPrincipal.IsInRole($adminRole))
   {

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2018-03-22T15:09:41.743Z [DEBUG] plugin.terraform: file-provisioner (internal) 2018/03/22 15:09:41 Uploading file to 'C:\scripts\check_build.ps1'
2018-03-22T15:09:42.378Z [DEBUG] plugin.terraform: remote-exec-provisioner (internal) 2018/03/22 15:09:42 connecting to remote shell using WinRM
2018-03-22T15:09:42.408Z [DEBUG] plugin.terraform: remote-exec-provisioner (internal) 2018/03/22 15:09:42 Uploading file to 'C:/Temp/terraform_1217694552.cmd'
2018-03-22T15:09:43.054Z [DEBUG] plugin.terraform: remote-exec-provisioner (internal) 2018/03/22 15:09:43 starting remote command: C:/Temp/terraform_1217694552.cmd
2018-03-22T15:10:52.390Z [DEBUG] plugin.terraform: remote-exec-provisioner (internal) 2018/03/22 15:10:52 Uploading file to 'C:/Temp/terraform_1217694552.cmd'
2018/03/22 15:10:53 [DEBUG] plugin: waiting for all plugin processes to complete...
2018-03-22T15:10:53.201Z [DEBUG] plugin.terraform: remote-exec-provisioner (internal) 2018/03/22 15:10:53 [ERR] plugin: plugin server: accept unix /tmp/plugin522209802

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<powershell>
$Admin = [adsi]("WinNT://./Administrator, user")
$Admin.psbase.invoke("SetPassword", "<password>")
</powershell>

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# Hashicorp documentation is a bit out of date so it took a minute to figure this out...

# 1. Install go 
https://golang.org/dl/

# 2. Make a go workspace
$ mkdir ~/go          # or wherever you want
$ export GOPATH=~/go  # could add to .bash_profile
$ export PATH=$GOPATH:$PATH

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pip install --index-url="https://pypi.org/simple" --upgrade virtualenv

sudo yum groupinstall -y development
sudo yum install -y zlib-dev openssl-devel sqlite-devel bzip2-devel
sudo yum install xz-libs


wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.14/Python-2.7.14.tar.xz
xz -d Python-2.7.14.tar.xz
tar -xvf Python-2.7.14.tar

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# terraform locals (in a .tf file)
locals {
  name_prefix   = "terrafirm"
  full_build_id = format("notcb:%s", uuid())                                                                                                                            #128-bit rfc 4122 v4 UUID
  build_id      = "${substr(element(split(":",local.full_build_id),1), 0, 8)}${substr(element(split(":",local.full_build_id),1), 9, 4)}"
  resource_name = "${local.name_prefix}-${local.build_id}"
}
  
# terraform template declaration (in a .tf file)
data "template_file" "lx_userdata" {

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#!/bin/bash

# Many things want UTC time as input, so here it is. As 14 days ago. Like for a query to AWS spot instance history:
# aws ec2 describe-spot-price-history --instance-types t2.micro --start-time $(date -v-14d -u '+%FT%TZ') --product-description "Linux/UNIX"
#
# Output (of command below, not the aws cli command): 
# 2018-02-13T15:24:46Z
#
date -v-14d -u '+%FT%TZ'

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$uuid = 'some-name-or-urn:8754258d-506d-e094-d51d-e0a0d891fe08' #16 octets, 10-15 are the node
$node = $(echo $uuid | cut -d':' -f 2 | cut -d'-' -f 5)

echo $node

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#!/bin/bash

org=$1
name=${2:-$USER}

echo "Usage: $0 [organization] [name]"

create_date=$(date +'%Y%m%d')

if [ -n "${org}" ] ; then org="$org " ; fi

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#!/bin/bash

# Errors are thrown if Terraform is given the name of an existing security group.
# One solution is to find the existing security group and delete it. (That will fail if any instances are associated.)
# This installs jq, finds security group id, deletes security group.
#
security_group_name=your_sg

# 1. Install jq
curl -L "https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases/download/jq-1.5/jq-linux64" -o jq.dms && chmod +x jq.dms