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wallix / awless

awless

A Mighty CLI for AWS

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A Mighty CLI for AWS

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Observed mentions: 2017-02-14 20:15:12 UTC to 2021-04-20 23:31:46 UTC.

051015202017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 20 mentions; 4 submissions, 16 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Great article and nice tool. Switching role and profile with multiple organizations is indeed cumbersome with AWS. We are also developing an open source CLI for AWS named awless (cf. https://github.com/wallix/awless). We currently support easy MFA, profile switch and role assuming in CLI with the '-p' flag and are working on extending these features to support multiple organizations. We had multiple issues filed on GitHub which are closely related to this.
In AWS bastions and assume-role
What part of "Awsless: A Mighty CLI for AWS" sounds like SaaS? "SaaS" means software as a service, something someone else runs, generally web based where metrics are relevant, not a command line tool on your own machine talking to your own infra. From read me: Install Choose one of the following options: - Download the latest awless binaries (Windows/Linux/macOS) from Github - If you have Golang already installed, build the source with: go get github.com/wallix/awless - On macOS, use homebrew: brew tap wallix/awless; brew install awless Which of those sounds like SaaS?
In Awless: A Mighty CLI for AWS
The easiest way to build awless from source is to use our release script (go run release.go -tag 0.0.13). Or you can also get the full sources with `go get github.com/wallix/awless`. Then, `go build .` in `$GOPATH/src/github.com/wallix/awless/` should work.
In Awless: A Mighty CLI for AWS
It seems your GOPATH is not set correctly. First freshly install Go independently. Verify it is installed correctly with "go env". Then do a "go get github.com/wallix/awless", "cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/wallix/awless" and "go install". Then in the same prompt do "awless"
In Awless: A Mighty CLI for AWS
(I'm one of the core developpers of awless) The hash functions are totally unrevertable, so it is impossible to come back to the original identifiers. We added these anonymous ids, in order to know which commands are the most used per users. Anyway, if you have better ideas on how to manage this, feel free to make a pull request or create a Github issue. And if you prefer to disable it, you can also do it easily with the source code (you just need to comment a few lines). Edit: We opened an issue for this topic on our Github repo: https://github.com/wallix/awless/issues/38 . Feel free to continue the discussion there.
In Awless: A Mighty CLI for AWS
How about some instructions on building it ? It lacks a Makefile or any documentation in the tarball for the latest release (v0.0.13)... I found some sparse documentation on the wiki, but that appears to fail. I tried: GOPATH=$(pwd) go build . And got: $ GOPATH=$(pwd) go build . main.go:19:8: cannot find package "github.com/wallix/awless/commands" in any of: /usr/src/github.com/wallix/awless/commands (from $GOROOT) /home/rkeene/Downloads/awless-0.0.13/src/github.com/wallix/awless/commands (from $GOPATH)
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