AWS MasterClass: DevOps w/ AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)

Explore the AWS CLI, learn installation on different operating systems, configure credentials, and leverage command patterns, fuzzy auto completion, and extensive documentation to manage and automate AWS resources.

Learn to install the AWS CLI on Windows by downloading the 64-bit installer, running the setup wizard, and verifying with aws --version to confirm the CLI and Python runtime.

Install the AWS CLI on Linux via pip after installing Python and pip. Verify with aws --version; Ubuntu and other Linux flavors are supported and the version shown is 1.10.66.

Configure the AWS CLI by supplying access keys from IAM, managing security credentials, and setting a default region for secure, region-specific calls to AWS resources.

Explore aws cli output formats: json (default), table, and text; learn how to switch formats for machine parsing or human readability using aws ec2 describe-instances as an example.

Explore how the AWS CLI stores and manages credentials and settings in the credential and config files in your home directory, including default outputs, regions, and named profiles.

Explore how the AWS CLI provides help and documentation to navigate services like EC2 and IAM, view command details and parameters, and follow installation and configuration steps.

Enable command autocompletion and filter AWS CLI output with query and filter options, then test permissions with a dry run and explore the James Path Terminal for testing commands.

Configure AWS CLI auto completion on unix-like systems by locating the completer and enabling it for bash. Verify with AWS CLI --version and tab completion for AWS EC2 describe.

Master server-side filtering with the AWS CLI filter option to return targeted results and speed commands, then compare client-side query filtering on describe instances for t2 micro EC2 instances.

Discover how the AWS CLI query option filters any command output on the client side using James Path expressions, contrasting with server-side filters and using describe regions as an example.

Learn how to verify IAM user permissions for AWS CLI using the dry run option, preventing unintended changes by testing commands like describe regions with dryrun.

Learn to filter AWS CLI outputs with JMESPath expressions using the JMESPath terminal. Install via pip, explore JSON interactively, and pipe outputs for real-time querying.

Set up the JMESPath terminal and learn to interactively build queries to filter AWS CLI outputs, including extracting public IP addresses from EC2 instances.

Explore AWS EC2 with the AWS CLI, learn to automate and deploy EC2 instances, and configure key pairs, security groups, EMI, VPC, subnets, and elastic IP addresses.

Review ec2 instances in the aws management console and switch the region to Asia Pacific, Singapore; learn prerequisites like key pair, security group, emi, vpc, subnets, and elastic ip.

Explore the AWS EC2 management console, reviewing key pairs, security groups, AMIs, and elastic IPs, and learn how public key cryptography and key pairs enable SSH and remote login.

Learn to generate an AWS EC2 key pair with the AWS CLI, download and secure the private key, and use it to connect to EC2 instances.

Understand how security groups act as virtual firewalls for EC2 instances in a VPC, controlling ingress and egress ports, and learn to create them with AWS CLI.

Explore AMIs as templates for EC2 instances, covering the operating system, applications, root volumes, and launch permissions; learn to find AMI IDs and use VPCs and subnets for deployment.

Launch an EC2 instance using AWS CLI with run-instances, specifying AMI ID, count, instance type t2 micro, subnet ID, key name, and security group in a VPC; verify with describe-instances.

Learn to allocate and associate elastic IP addresses with EC2 instances using the AWS CLI, providing a static public IPv4 for internet access and rapid failover.

Terminate AWS EC2 instances using the AWS CLI by retrieving instance IDs with describe instances and running terminate instances, then verify the shutdown in the management console.

Explore AWS S3, a scalable object storage service, and use the AWS CLI to read, create, delete objects in buckets via URLs with high durability and availability.

Discover core S3 operations via the AWS CLI, including creating buckets, managing objects, and deleting buckets, while using S3 help to review commands like cp, mv, rm, ls, and sync.

Upload local files to an AWS S3 bucket using the AWS CLI command, explore storage class options—S3 Standard, S3 Standard-IA, and Reduced Redundancy storage—within the CLI.

Upload and manage S3 objects with the AWS CLI, using CP and LS to copy, list, and verify objects, and apply storage classes like standard, standard-ia, or reduced redundancy.

Learn how to move and sync AWS S3 objects with the AWS CLI using mv and sync commands, including recursive transfers, include/exclude filters, deletions, storage class, and ACL options.

Learn how to use the AWS CLI to delete S3 objects and remove buckets, including deleting individual objects, verifying bucket contents, and force-deleting non-empty buckets.

Learn how aws iam authenticates users and authorizes access via the aws cli. Create and manage iam users and groups with fine-grained policies across services like s3.

Explore AWS CLI basics to list and create IAM users, manage root versus IAM accounts, and assign permissions through IAM groups.

Learn to manage AWS IAM with the AWS CLI by creating groups, adding users, and configuring login profiles and API access keys for secure programmatic access.

Manage AWS IAM with CLI by attaching and detaching policies to groups, adding or removing users, and deleting groups, while validating changes in the management console.

Explore elastic load balancing with the AWS CLI by deploying classic and application load balancers, configuring listeners, autoscaling, health checks, and Route 53 integration.

compare classic ELB and ELB v2, review AWS CLI help, and create an application load balancer with subnets and security groups, then verify and save its ARN.

Create and manage application load balancer target groups with the AWS CLI v2, register EC2 targets, configure listeners, and verify health checks while describing and deleting resources.

Learn to manage classic load balancers with the AWS CLI by creating a classic load balancer, configuring http front-end and http back-end listeners on port 80, and describing load balancers.

Create internal classic load balancer via CLI by setting the scheme to internal, configuring http over port 80, subnet, and security group, and verify the DNS URL starts with internal.

Master CLI workflows for elastic load balancers by registering and deregistering instances with internal and external ELBs, deleting load balancers, and verifying changes in the AWS console.

Learn to use the AWS CLI to work with SNS and SQS, exploring publish-subscribe messaging for real-time notifications and queue-based decoupling of applications.

Configure AWS SNS with the AWS CLI by creating topics and retrieving their ARNs. Subscribe, confirm, publish, and manage subscriptions and topics using CLI commands.

Explore AWS SQS basics and capabilities using the AWS CLI. Learn standard and fifo queues, key APIs (send, receive, delete), queue attributes, and creating and listing queues.

Explore how to use the AWS CLI to send, receive, and delete messages in SQS, manage queue visibility, delays, and queue lifecycle with practical commands.

Master AWS CLI for Elastic Container Service (ECS) to deploy and manage Docker containers on EC2, including clusters, container images from registries, and ECS tasks and task definitions.

Learn to create and manage ecs clusters with the aws cli, including a default cluster, listing clusters across availability zones, and registering container instances on ec2.

Explore using the AWS CLI to register EC2 container instances with ECS clusters, assign proper IAM roles, and verify registration in default and custom clusters like tetra cluster.