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AWS Tools for PowerShell 6

You're reading from   AWS Tools for PowerShell 6 Administrate, maintain, and automate your infrastructure with ease

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
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ISBN-13 9781785884078
Length 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ramesh Waghmare Ramesh Waghmare
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Preface 1. PowerShell Essentials FREE CHAPTER 2. The AWS Overview 3. Installing PowerShell Core and AWS Tools 4. AWS Identity and Access Management 5. AWS Virtual Private Cloud 6. AWS Elastic Compute Cloud 7. AWS Simple Storage Service 8. Elastic Load Balancer 9. Auto Scaling 10. Laying Foundation for RDS Databases 11. DB Instance Administration and Management 12. Working with RDS Read Replicas 13. AWS Elastic Beanstalk 14. AWS CloudFormation 15. AWS CloudWatch 16. AWS Resource Auditing

Helper scripts

CloudFormation provides four helper scripts. These helper scripts can be called directly from your template. These helper scripts are preinstalled on Amazon Linux AMI and are found in /opt/aws/bin. These scripts can be installed on Windows using Python.

  • cfn-init: This helper script can fetch and parse template metadata from templates and use that data to install packages, create and write files to disk, enable/disable, and start/stop services.
  • cfn-signal: This helper script is used to signal back to a stack a success or failure. Once actions are complete, you can signal back their success to the stack. If an action could not be completed, you can signal back its failure to the stack.
  • cfn-hup: This helper script is a daemon that detects changes in resource metadata and then runs actions when a change is detected.
  • cfn-get-metadata: This helper script is used to get...
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