Some handy tools built using Rust.
ami-helper is a Linux / macOS / Windows command line program that tries to determine the most
recent AMI for Amazon Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, and Windows. It's designed to be used in code that
starts EC2 instances like our Agent Smoke Tests.
Install ami-helper for Linux AMD64 using wget.
wget https://github.com/Coding-Badly/rusty-tools/releases/download/current/ami-helper.linux.amd64
chmod u+x+r-w,g=,o= ami-helper.linux.amd64
sudo mv -f ami-helper.linux.amd64 /usr/local/bin/ami-helper
ami-helper version
Install ami-helper for Linux AMD64 using curl.
curl --location https://github.com/Coding-Badly/rusty-tools/releases/download/current/ami-helper.linux.amd64 --output ami-helper-VkVNU8nd
chmod u+x+r-w,g=,o= ami-helper-VkVNU8nd
sudo mv -f ami-helper-VkVNU8nd /usr/local/bin/ami-helper
ami-helper version
Install ami-helper for macOS AMD64 using curl.
curl --location https://github.com/Coding-Badly/rusty-tools/releases/download/current/ami-helper.macos.amd64 --output ami-helper-zFzB8WTL
chmod u+x+r-w,g=,o= ami-helper-zFzB8WTL
sudo mv -f ami-helper-zFzB8WTL /usr/local/bin/ami-helper
ami-helper version
Install ami-helper for Windows (assuming curl is available).
curl --location https://github.com/Coding-Badly/rusty-tools/releases/download/current/ami-helper.windows.amd64 --output ami-helper.exe
ami-helper version
USE_THIS_AMI=$(ami-helper select --operating-system amazon --architecture amd64 --just-ami --singleton)
printf "> %s <\n" $USE_THIS_AMI
START_OPTIONS=$(ami-helper select -o ubuntu -a arm64 -r us-west-1 -s)
printf "> %s <\n" $START_OPTIONS
sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/ami-helper
rm -f ami-helper