bpholt

#!/bin/bash

cluster=default
container_instance=  # container instance guid

tasks=$(aws --region us-west-2 ecs list-tasks --container-instance $container_instance --cluster $cluster | jq -r '.taskArns | map(.[40:]) | reduce .[] as $item (""; . + $item + " ")')
for task in $tasks; do
	aws --region us-west-2 ecs stop-task --task $task --cluster $cluster
done
aws --region us-west-2 ecs deregister-container-instance --cluster $cluster --container-instance $container_instance

JamesMGreene

Initialize

gitflow	git
git flow init	git init
	git commit --allow-empty -m "Initial commit"
	git checkout -b develop master

Connect to the remote repository

jasonkeene

Python for System Admins / Operators

Installing Python

Most Unix/Linux systems come with python pre-installed:

$ python -V

danrigsby

packer build packer.json 2>&1 | sudo tee output.txt
tail -2 output.txt | head -2 | awk 'match($0, /ami-.*/) { print substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH) }' > sudo ami.txt

mwhite

The Ultimate Git Alias Setup

If you use git on the command-line, you'll eventually find yourself wanting aliases for your most commonly-used commands. It's incredibly useful to be able to explore your repos with only a few keystrokes that eventually get hardcoded into muscle memory.

Some people don't add aliases because they don't want to have to adjust to not having them on a remote server. Personally, I find that having aliases doesn't mean I that forget the underlying commands, and aliases provide such a massive improvement to my workflow that it would be crazy not to have them.

The simplest way to add an alias for a specific git command is to use a standard bash alias.

# .bashrc

scy

Opening and closing an SSH tunnel in a shell script the smart way

I recently had the following problem:

• From an unattended shell script (called by Jenkins), run a command-line tool that accesses the MySQL database on another host.
• That tool doesn't know that the database is on another host, plus the MySQL port on that host is firewalled and not accessible from other machines.

We didn't want to open the MySQL port to the network, but it's possible to SSH from the Jenkins machine to the MySQL machine. So, basically you would do something like

ssh -L 3306:localhost:3306 remotehost

willurd

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

Steven-Rose

Select all and delete (actually move to buffer)
:%d

Select all and copy to buffer
:%y

Use p to paste the buffer.