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Its been a while since I've posted here. I needed to set default encryption on a bucket in an account that was not being managed by cloudformation and was not making use of kms. Here is the PowerShell that worked since google came up empty for me!
Enable S3 server side default encryption with PowerShell
Free Private Git Repository with AWS CodeCommit
Getting Started with Source Control
I often see folks looking to get started with source control for their PowerShell scripts. There are a variety of free options out there but the choices get a bit limited when you need private repositories where code remains confidential. If you are like me a lot of your older code might be job specific, contain credentials, or perhaps you never even intend to share your code. None of those reasons are blockers for getting started using source control.
Here is a step by step walk through of using AWS CodeCommit and Git for Windows to make your first private Git Repo.
AWS CodeCommit
AWS CodeCommit is a service which provides fully managed, highly scalable source control and its currently free indefinitely for personal use if you stay under 50 GB stored, 5 user accounts, and 10,000 requests per month. Code is stored in AWS and automatically encrypted at rest. Think of it as private git repositories as a service.
There are a few methods which can be used to access CodeCommit. This guide will focus on HTTPS access with Git credentials instead of using IAM credentials directly. Using HTTPS leaves local Git able to interface with other Git repositories seamlessly.
Creating Your AWS CodeCommit Git Credentials
Assuming you already have an AWS account, navigate to the console and sign in. You can use that link to sign up for a new account and take advantage of AWS' free tier if you are a new customer.
The first step after logging in is to create a new IAM user which will access the CodeCommit service. CodeCommit cannot be accessed over HTTPS from the root account. Head on over to the IAM console.
Within IAM create a new user. I'll call this user codecommituser and check the box for Programmatic access.
On the permissions page choose "attach existing polices directly" and search for codecommit. I will choose AWSCodecommitFullAccess but another option would be the AWSCodeCommitPowerUser policy which restricts repository deletions.
At the end of the add user wizard IAM credentials are presented for this user. These credentials are not needed so go ahead and click close.
Back in the IAM console under the security credentials tab of the new user disable the IAM keys using the make inactive link.
Further down on the security credentials page locate the HTTPS Git credentials section and use the Generate button. Credentials will be presented in a popup dialog. Save these credentials for later use.
Creating Your First CodeCommit Repository
Back in the AWS services console use the drop down in the top right of the screen to select the desired AWS region to use with CodeCommit. Then search for CodeCommit from the service search bar.
Landing on the CodeCommit service page brings a Getting Started button, clicking the button starts the create repository process. I'll go ahead and create a repository called CodeCommitRepo in this example.
Copy the link that is provided after choosing HTTPS from the Clone URL drop down. Save this link along side the previously saved Git HTTPS credentials.
Cloning a Repo And Making the First Commit
That was a lot of boring prep but now you should have everything you need to start using CodeCommit. If you don't already have Git installed you will need it. Assuming you are on Windows download and install Git for Windows. The defaults of the installer are fine but make sure to double check the option to ensure the path environment variable will be updated to use Git.
With Git installed I create a new folder to keep the local clone of the new repository. Using PowerShell in this example I create a directory and cd (or set-location) into the new directory. From the new directory I then use "git clone" followed by the Repo url saved earlier.
mkdir CodeCommit
cd CodeCommit
git clone https://git-codecommit.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/v1/repos/CodeCommitRepo
When Git tries to clone the directory it will prompt for the HTTPS Git credentials.
After entering the credentials Git clones the repo into a new sub-directory. If this is your first time using git set the email and name to attach to commits made to this repo. This can be done with git config within the sub-directory.
cd CodeCommitRepo
git config user.email 'firstname.lastname@example.com'
git config user.name chris
For this walk-through I will create a new script file with PowerShell but I could also copy existing scripts into the directory at this step. Creating a README.md here would also be useful.
Once the files I want stored in CodeCommit are in the cloned repo folder I am ready to start using source control! I use "git add ." to stage all the files in the directory for the next commit. Then "git commit" is used with the -m switch to add a message describing the changes. Finally "git push origin master" sends the commit up to AWS CodeCommit.
New-Item Get-HelloWorld.ps1 -type file -force -value "Write-Output 'Hello World'"
git add .
git commit -m 'my first commit'
git push origin master
Back in the CodeCommit console will be the newly committed files.
I can now view the contents of synchronized scripts from the console.
Using CodeCommit with Visual Studio Code
Maybe the command line isn't how you want to work with Git. Its not for everyone. Visual Studio Code has great PowerShell and Git integration and it works smoothly with CodeCommit.
When working with PowerShell scripts in Visual Studio Code it will detect when it is working in a directory that is associated with a Git repo. Here is an example of what happens if I update my Hello World script file. I added some exclamation marks to the script and then saved the changes. The Source Control icon on the left hand side of Code lights up indicating it sees changed files. I can then use the + sign next to the file to stage my changes (git add equivalent).
Then with files staged I can add a message and use the check box to commit (git commit -m equivalent).At the bottom of the Window is where I can synchronize changes up to AWS CodeCommit (git push equivalent).
A popup dialog appears for confirmation.
Now back in CodeCommit I can see the commit history and am able to track changes to my scripts.
In this walk through I created a new IAM user to use with AWS CodeCommit. The new IAM user is left with no access to AWS other then the CodeCommit service through HTTPS authentication. Using HTTPS authentication with CodeCommit enables encrypted file transmission and AWS handles encrypting the storage. Using this solution for source control I gain off site backups and versioning of all my scripts. Best of all its no cost to me provided I can stay under the CodeCommit Free Tier service limits.
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Dynamic CloudFormation Templates (troposphere and boto3)
CloudFormation Overview
AWS CloudFormation is a really powerful service that enables programmatic creation and modification of AWS resources. It is the centerpiece of most AWS "Infrastructure as Code" implementations enabling developers and operations to achieve idempotence with infrastructure.
Common CloudFormation Challenges
Something any newcomer to CloudFormation will discover when starting to learn the service is the sample templates found online will often be outdated. Most CloudFormation templates that are designed for multi region deployment will utilize mappings of AMIs or instance types. These mappings exist to allow the template to take input from stack parameters to achieve different results based on the dynamic input. The latest AMIs for newer instance types change frequently and not all instance types are available in all regions so mappings are used to allow templates to handle as many scenarios as possible. Amazon Web Services is constantly changing and as a result static templates even with well thought out mappings will quickly go out of date as new AMIs are launched into any of AWS' many regions. Just take a look at Amazon's whats new page. The speed of change and new features that Amazon delivers is amazing and writing static CloudFormation templates in JSON or YAML just won't be able to keep up.
Leveraging Amazon SDKs and other third party tools like troposphere can help organizations make better use of CloudFormation. Today I will share an example of how I can use the Amazon Python SDK (boto3) and troposphere to generate dynamic CloudFormation VPC templates that can be kept up to date as new regions and availability zones are added to EC2.
My need for dynamic CloudFormation templates
Something I often find myself doing to keep up with Amazon Web Services is launching spot instances. It is the cheapest way for me to spin up a short lived instance and install a SDK or a new tool I want to try. I want the ability to have VPCs in any region so I can find the cheapest spot instances available for the instance type I want to launch. Spot prices vary by region and availability zone at any given moment and VPCs without VPN connections are free so it is beneficial for me to have launch options in every AZ of every region.
The VPCs I need in each region are fairly simple the requirements are:
- An internet gateway attached to the VPC
- A subnet created in each availability zone in the region
- Network ACLs to allow connectivity to instances in the subnets
- Routing from the subnets to the internet gateway for external connectivity
- Public IPs assigned to all launched instances by default
The below python script will generate a CloudFormation template that can be used to create a VPC in any available region, using all accessible availability zones in the region. The list of regions and availability zones is queried directly from the AWS APIs. If tomorrow a new availability zone becomes available in any of AWS's many regions, I can run the template generation script to generate an updated version of the CloudFormation template. The updated template can then be used to update the CloudFormation stack to immediately make use of the new availability zone. The same concept applies to new regions if AWS launches a new region tomorrow I will be able to make use of it immediately without writing any new code.
Walkthrough of using this script to generate a CloudFormation template
Basic Requirements for this script:
- Python3 installed and configured
- boto3 installed and ec2 describe permissions configured
- troposphere installed
With the above requirements met I can execute the python script to generate a CloudFormation template. The script will prompt for the desired region which in this example I will enter as us-east-1. If an invalid or unavailable region is entered, the script will display a list of valid regions to be used. The script then displays the path to the CloudFormation template that is generated to the current working directory.
If you enjoy reading JSON files you can take a peek at the generated template file.
Launching the CloudFormation template
With the template generated I can now head to the CloudFormation console in us-east-1 to launch my spot instance VPC stack. It is also possible to use the Amazon SDK's to launch this CloudFormation template for true Infrastructure as Code but for this example I will be using the console. From the CloudFormation console I click the Create Stack button.
On the next screen I choose "Upload a template to Amazon S3" and click the browse button. Using the file upload dialog popup I can navigate to the file that was displayed from the script execution above and click Open. The file will be automatically uploaded to an S3 bucket for me and its ready to be consumed by CloudFormation to create the stack.
After clicking next I am prompted to input a stack name, lets go with VirginiaSpotInstanceVPC.
The next screen displays some stack launch options, I am taking the default so I omitted the screenshot. The final step of the wizard is a review page. Everything looks good so I am ready to click create and watch CloudFormation works its magic.
CloudFormation Stack Creation
Once the stack is launched the console will exit the Create Stack wizard and return me to the CloudFormation console where the stack launch status is displayed. At this point the stack creation is still in progress.
After a minute or so I can utilize the refresh button on the top right of the CloudFormation console to see if the stack creation is done. The events tab can be used to view time stamped logs of the resource types the stack altered.
The status is now green / CREATE_COMPLETE so I can go check out my shiny new spot instance VPC in the VPC console of the us-east-1 region.
On the left hand side I use the filter dropdown to only display objects that apply to the new spot instance VPC and check on the subnets to make sure I have a subnet in each availability zone in the region. Indeed I do.
I was able to identify my need for dynamic infrastructure creation and leverage python, boto3, troposphere, and CloudFormation to create templates that should be reusable and update-able for the foreseeable future. The open source troposphere library opens up the possibility of using loops to iterate over returned objects from real-time calls to the AWS APIs with the python AWS SDK. Another benefit of using troposphere is I don't have to sweat JSON or YAML syntax, I can use my working knowledge of python syntax instead.
Of course nothing is totally future proof in the fast moving field of cloud computing but I think this approach sure beats writing straight JSON or YAML templates and then updating them everytime a new region or AZ is added to AWS.
That wraps it up for this example of using boto3 and troposphere to help manage infrastructure as code.
Below are some of the documentation links I used to create this solution.
Verify AlwaysOn Read Only Secondary Replica Routing with PowerShell
Here is a quick gist which will return the SQL servers responding to the request to the PowerShell host.
As written this needs to be run from PowerShell as a user with privileged sql access to run "select @@servername". Make sure to target a non system database inside an availability group with read only routing configured. The script can target a named instance by appending the instance name to the $server variable at the top.
The first value returned is the server node responding to regular requests without application intent specified. The second value returned is the server node responding to readonly application intent requests.
Exploring Unfamiliar Objects in PowerShell
One of the things that tripped me up early on while learning PowerShell was working with objects. Like most sysadmins I approached learning PowerShell from a scripting mindset. I wanted to run a script and have the script complete a routine task. I thought about PowerShell as a purely procedural language and I mostly ignored objects.
A great characteristic of PowerShell is just how easy it is to get started. You can still get tons of tasks done in PowerShell without a solid grip on objects. But to make progress into the language and get into what most consider intermediate level knowledge there is a need to gain a solid understanding of objects. How does someone without a programming or developer background get to a solid understanding of objects? I mean there are so many kinds of objects. Its not like there is an arbitrary number of times you pass objects over the pipeline before you have them all mastered. No, the best way get comfortable working with objects is learning how to examine them.
Below are the methods I use the most when working with unfamiliar objects.
Method Number 1: IntelliSense in the PowerShell ISE.
This is my go to method of inspecting a simple object. This often is all that is needed to discover to the properties of the object I am after.
To demonstrate this I will use a practical example of getting the full path to file objects returned from filtering the results of Get-ChildItem. I can save the search results to a variable $a.
$a = Get-ChildItem C:\users\Administrator\Desktop | Where-Object {$_.Name -like "Hello*"}
With the variable saved I can call the variable with a trailing period and that will start IntelliSense exploration of the object.
This gets me right to the "FullName" property that contains the complete path.
Method Number 2: Get-Member
If using IntelliSense does not get me what I am after, I am probably looking at a more complex object. Maybe its an object that contains other objects. The best way I've found to further inspect a object beyond IntelliSense is to pipe it to Get-Member or its alias "gm".
Again I will use a practical example from one of my posts a few weeks back about working with Amazon EC2 security groups. My goal in this example was to create security groups and their inbound/ingress rules. I know from experience that I want to understand Amazon's objects when working with the AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell before using the cmdlets. So I set out to look at what kind of objects Amazon uses for its EC2 security groups. My first step was to look up a security group with the Get-EC2SecurityGroup cmdlet and save the returning object to a variable.
$sg = Get-EC2SecurityGroup -GroupId sg-66ad9e19
With the object stored in the variable I tried IntelliSense and saw IpPermission properties that looked promising. I have a hunch that this property will reveal how security groups handle their network traffic permissions.
After choosing the property and entering it into the console, I can see it does contain what I am after but its not so straight forward. I see some "{}" in fields where I expect data. Port 80 and 22 match up with my ingress rules on the security group but there are no details on the source security group of the ingress rule.
This is a sign of a more complex object and its time to use Get-Member.
$sg.IpPermission | gm
Whoa, this object is quite complex. I can see that this IpPermission property that I am inspecting is an object type unique to itself. Its an Amazon.EC2.Model.IpPermission which is listed at the top of the Get-Member output. This IpPermission has its own set of properties. I think of these as "sub-properties" from the parent security group object. Looking at these "sub-properties" we see they are lists of other object types. Its only going to get more complex from here!
Next I backtrack a step and pipe $sg to Get-Member and see that it is an Amazon.EC2.Model.SecurityGroup.
$sg | gm
With the type of the object gained from using Get-Member, I can use a search engine to find my way to Amazon's documentation of this object's class. That's another great source of information about this object. From this point further inspection is a matter of preference. I can keep using Get-Member on all the properties under IpPermission to learn about the object or I can look to Amazon's documentation about the IpPermission class. Both of these options are valid but I prefer to keep using PowerShell. Continuing down this path of discovering sub properties and piping them to Get-Member might take a while so to save time I can move on to my final and new favorite method of object exploration.
Method Number 3: Show-Object
Show-Object is a great add-on to PowerShell. Its available from the PowerShell gallery as part of Lee Holmes' PowerShellCookbook module. Its like Get-Member on steroids.
$sg | Show-Object
When you pipe an object to Show-Object it will display a tree view of the object in a GUI just like showwindow. You can use the popup window to click through all the properties of the object and discover more details about the object's inheritance and structure. As you drill into the tree view the bottom pane of the window will update with familiar Get-Member results of each property.
A few clicks later inside the IpPermission property I see information about UserIdGroupPair and I've found my source security group allowed for ingress traffic. This is "sg-fda89b92" in the image above. It is in a form I did not initially expect. With all the information I have gained from these discovery methods its was only a matter of time before I had a great understanding of this previously completely unknown object type.
Fun with Google's programming challenge site (foo.bar)
A few weeks ago I was browsing some threads discussing reddit's april fool's day /r/place experiment. I was interested in seeing some of the overlay scripts people whipped up on short notice and found myself in a script discussion thread. In this thread I came across a redditor giving others a heads up that if you are ever searching for python programming terms and google asks you if you are up for a challenge, say yes, because it is a job interview. I thought that was really interesting so I did some research and came across a few older hacker news threads discussing this practice and this article that confirmed this thing existed.
As I am just venturing down the road of learning python (I started learning less than a month ago), I find myself googling almost everything related to the code I am writing. If this thing is real I am probably going to see it eventually…
Fast forward to today and I am working on writing an AWS lambda/boto function in python and needed a reminder on list comprehension syntax. I went to google and searched python list comprehension. As I snapped my cursor to click the first link, I saw the page morph. I was instantly reminded of the foobar challenge and knew I had just been invited. Unfortunately I had clicked too fast and left the search results page. I went back and refreshed and re-searched but the invite was gone!
I went to lunch and pondered over what a fun learning opportunity I missed. When I got back to my desk, I went back to google to retrace my steps, hopeful the invites were google account linked and perhaps I would get another invite. I never technically "declined" my invite I just missed it. Sure enough, one google search later, I had my invite. This is what it looked like.
After accepting the invite I was taken to google's foobar challenge site. It was a web app with a very minimalist feel. I was greeted with what looked like a linux command prompt so I typed "ls". It listed a bunch of files, one called journal.txt and another called start_here.txt. Using "cat" on these files start_here.txt gave me instructions on how to request a challenge and journal.txt set the stage for challenges plot line.
Success! You've managed to infiltrate Commander Lambda's evil organization, and finally earned yourself an entry-level position as a Minion on her space station. From here, you just might be able to subvert her plans to use the LAMBCHOP doomsday device to destroy Bunny Planet. Problem is, Minions are the lowest of the low in the Lambda hierarchy. Better buck up and get working, or you'll never make it to the top…
Next time Bunny HQ needs someone to infiltrate a space station to rescue prisoners, youre going to tell them to make sure stay up for 48 hours straight scrubbing toilets is part of the job description. Its only fair to warn people, after all.
I followed the instructions and requested a challenge. I was given "the cake is not a lie!" challenge as my level 1 challenge. A timer appeared on the lower left hand side of the screen, indicating I had 48 hours to solve this challenge. A new directory was created in my home directory of this virtual terminal. Here is what the challenge looked like.
The cake is not a lie!
Commander Lambda has had an incredibly successful week: she completed the first test run of her LAMBCHOP doomsday device, she captured six key members of the Bunny Rebellion, and she beat her personal high score in Tetris. To celebrate, she's ordered cake for everyone – even the lowliest of minions! But competition among minions is fierce, and if you don't cut exactly equal slices of cake for everyone, you'll get in big trouble.
The cake is round, and decorated with M&Ms in a circle around the edge. But while the rest of the cake is uniform, the M&Ms are not: there are multiple colors, and every minion must get exactly the same sequence of M&Ms. Commander Lambda hates waste and will not tolerate any leftovers, so you also want to make sure you can serve the entire cake.
To help you best cut the cake, you have turned the sequence of colors of the M&Ms on the cake into a string: each possible letter (between a and z) corresponds to a unique color, and the sequence of M&Ms is given clockwise (the decorations form a circle around the outer edge of the cake).
Write a function called answer(s) that, given a non-empty string less than 200 characters in length describing the sequence of M&Ms, returns the maximum number of equal parts that can be cut from the cake without leaving any leftovers.
To provide a Python solution, edit solution.py
To provide a Java solution, edit solution.java
Test cases
(string) s = "abccbaabccba"
(int) 2
(string) s = "abcabcabcabc"
(int) 4
Use verify [file] to test your solution and see how it does. When you are finished editing your code, use submit [file] to submit your answer. If your solution passes the test cases, it will be removed from your home folder.
I read over this challenge and knew this was no task for work. This was going to be a brain twister for a python novice such as myself and I'm not being paid to play python games afterall. My immediate schedule is quite busy and I didn't have a ton of time to spend on this, so I decided to think on this challenge on my commute home.
I thought about the intricacies of this problem while dealing with my daily dose of New Jersey's rush hour. The function would need to return 0 if the cake could not be cut without leftovers or if the string was empty. I needed to identify possible M&M patterns from the input string. The pattern surely could not be longer than half the length of the string. I needed to check to see if there were remainders (probably with a modulus) when chopping the string with the possible patterns and discard those results. I had to wrap the string somehow because the function needed to iterate over all possible starting points of the string to find valid solutions. There would be edge cases / test cases on that part I was sure due to the way it was stated on the description that the M&Ms were laid out clockwise. As such a python beginner, who had to google list comprehension syntax to get here, I knew I wasn't solving this in the few hours of free time I had in the next two days.
So I did what anyone in IT does when they don't know a solution off the top of their head, I went to the search engines to discover some discussions on this problem. A quick search later and I found this stackoverflow question with a valid java answer by Jawad Le Wywadi. Further searches for a python solution turned up blank. In the end, this blog post may very well change that.
Here is the example code from the stack overflow question written in java:
int result = -1;
int len = s.length();
for(int i = len; i > 0; i--){
int n = len/i;
if( n * i == len){
boolean valid = true;
String part = s.substring(0,n);
for(int j = 1; j < i; j++){
valid = false;
result = i;
Well, with a possible answer in hand, I still wanted to at least have somewhat of a challenge so I decided to see if I could turn this solution into a valid python solution to the problem. There was a text file with constraints listed, so I would need to take those into consideration. Notably for me was the fact that this needed to run on python 2.7.6
Your code will be compiled using standard Java 7. It must implement the answer() method in the solution stub.
Execution time is limited. Some classes are restricted (e.g. java.lang.ClassLoader). You will see a notice if you use a restricted class when you verify your solution.
Third-party libraries, input/output operations, spawning threads or processes and changes to the execution environment are not allowed.
Your code will run inside a Python 2.7.6 sandbox.
Standard libraries are supported except for bz2, crypt, fcntl, mmap, pwd, pyexpat, select, signal, termios, thread, time, unicodedata, zipimport, zlib.
After a few more search engine queries and some quick print debugging, I was getting closer. While I know I had zero chance of coming up with this solution on my own in 48 hours, I still felt a little bit proud that I took some code from a language I have zero experience with and turned it into working python code that was solving all the inputs I threw at it. Here is that code
I used the foobar editor to put my code into solution.py and ran the verify command to see if I had a solution.
Well look at that, All test cases passed! I had indeed googled my solution to google's challenge.
After verifying my solution, I submitted it to move on to level 2, and was greeted by a jumping ASCII bunny on the terminal. Who doesn't love ASCII art?
For this next challenge level, I am going to wait until I have a free weekend and proper time to possibly come up with my own solution.
Using SQS Queues with PowerShell
I wanted to look at connecting two disparate systems for a recent project. The goal was to be able to enter information into one system and have information processed by another system. The systems have no direct authentication trusts between them but they are both running on Amazon Web Services EC2 platform. This was a perfect use for the decoupling nature of the Amazon Simple Queue Service and I wanted to come up with a proof of concept, which is outlined below.
Before getting into any details, I want to make clear that this is not a best practice use case of SQS. For most uses of SQS there is a need to keep track of the messages being processed in some kind of permanent state such as a database. With a persistent data store containing the processed messages, the queue workers can more effectively process messages if messages are delivered one or more times. That being said lets go over this proof of concept.
Assuming AWS keys with correct permissions are configured and the AWSPowerShell module is loaded, the below command will create a new SQS queue with PowerShell. The command returns the created queue url which will be stored in a variable $NewSQSQueueUrl for future use.
$NewSQSQueueUrl = New-SQSQueue -QueueName ExampleBlogPostQueue -Region us-east-1
A quick peek at the SQS console to ensure the queue was created.
This next bit creates an array of strings which will serve as some example information to share between the systems. For this proof of concept I am sending example PowerShell parameters into the SQS queue.
$exampleparams = @("All The Things","Another Example Parameter")
I have written the POC functions which are also uploaded to my GitHub PowerShell repo that get dot sourced. These functions put the information (example parameters) into the new SQS queue as message attributes of the newly created SQS message.
. "$env:userprofile\Documents\PowerShell\WIP\blog\Start-SQSQueueProcessing.ps1"
. "$env:userprofile\Documents\PowerShell\WIP\blog\Send-PowerShellParameterToSQS.ps1"
Send-PowerShellParameterToSQS -Parameters $exampleparams -SQSQueueUrl $NewSQSQueueUrl -RequestType Enable
After running these functions the message ids are returned to the PowerShell host indicating the messages have been inserted into the SQS queue successfully.
Below is the function that was dot sourced that did the uploading. You could customize this to fit your use case with some help from the AWS Send-SQSMessage cmdlet documentation.
function Send-PowerShellParameterToSQS
ForEach ($Parameter in $Parameters){
$messageParameter = New-Object Amazon.SQS.Model.MessageAttributeValue
$messageParameter.DataType = "String"
$messageParameter.StringValue = $Parameter
$messageAttributes = New-Object System.Collections.Hashtable
$messageAttributes.Add($RequestType, $messageParameter)
Send-SQSMessage -QueueUrl $SQSQueueUrl -MessageAttributes $messageAttributes -MessageBody "Request generated by $($env:Username) at $(Get-Date -Format u)"
catch {
Write-Error $_
With messages being put into the queue, I need a function to pull down the messages and process them on the queue worker system (aka the SQS message receiver). My goal is to take different actions on the queue worker system based on the message attributes of the SQS messages pulled out of the queue. That function looks something like this.
function Start-SQSQueueProccessing
Write-Verbose "$(Get-Date -Format u) Polling for $SQSQueueUrl messages"
$recmsg = Receive-SQSMessage -QueueUrl $SQSQueueUrl -MessageCount 10 -MessageAttributeName All
if ($recmsg) {
Write-Verbose "$(Get-Date -Format u) ... Messages found in queue...starting to process them"
$recmsg | ForEach-Object {
Write-Verbose "$(Get-Date -Format u) ... Processing message $($_.MessageId) that was $($_.Body)"
$_.MessageAttributes | ForEach-Object {
###This is where you can take action depending on the Key value of the message attribute###
if ($_.Keys -eq "Enable") { Write-Output "We could do a Enable-Noun powershell cmdlet with the -parameter $($_.Enable.StringValue) here" }
elseif ($_.Keys -eq "Disable") { Write-Output "We could do a Disable-Noun powershell cmdlet with the -parameter $($_.Disable.StringValue) here" }
else { Write-Warning "Thats odd, the key of the message attribute was not what was expected so no action was taken" }
Write-Verbose "$(Get-Date -Format u) Done processing $($_.MessageId) that was $($_.Body) attempting message deletion"
Remove-SQSMessage -QueueUrl $SQSQueueUrl -ReceiptHandle $_.ReceiptHandle -Force
}else{ Write-Verbose "$(Get-Date -Format u) ... No messages were pulled from the queue...nothing to do right now"}
catch {
Write-Error $_
This function isn't actually doing anything interesting with the messages other than generating some output to the PowerShell streams but this is a proof of concept after all :).
Considerations when using SQS
As SQS is designed to decouple distributed systems, SQS does not assume every message pulled from the queue has been processed successfully. Messages that are pulled from the queue are hidden from the queue until the message visibility timeout period has passed. It is up to the queue workers to delete the messages from the queue after the message has been processed. This is why at the end of the function above, messages are deleted from the queue with the Remove-SQSMessage cmdlet.
After working with SQS a bit, I noticed that the behavior surrounding the delivery of messages sitting in the queue is a little unintuitive. For example, say there are 8 messages in a queue and I request for up to 10 messages to be received with Receive-SQSMessage. A logical assumption would be that all 8 messages are returned but that is rarely the case. After working with some messages in queues it becomes quite apparent that SQS will return a random number of messages. Additionally without using FIFO (First-In First-Out) queues, the messages will often be delivered out of order.
Another bit of a gotcha I ran into at first was that by default, Recieve-SQSMessage will not return any message attributes from SQS. The resulting Amazon.SQS.Model.Message object that was returned had blank MessageAttributeValues until I specified "-MessageAttributeName All" parameter.
Hopefully the above considerations will shed some light on the way the function is written. I wrote it so that it could be run repeatedly from a parent polling script and that it could handle one more more message objects being returned from each poll of SQS.
Back to the functions
Finally, we get to the polling function portions of the script which could run on scheduled intervals via task scheduler. This function first checks a queue for the existence of messages using the Get-SQSQueueAttribute cmdlet. If messages are found in the queue, it will invoke the Start-SQSQueueProcessing function referenced above to handle the messages. I make use PowerShell transcription to keep a log for now. If this ever moves out of proof of concept, logging could be improved quite a bit to make it cleaner.
This is the POC Queue polling function.
Function Start-SQSQueuePolling{
$numofmsg = Get-SQSQueueAttribute -QueueUrl $QueueUrl -AttributeName ApproximateNumberOfMessages
if ($numofmsg.ApproximateNumberOfMessages -gt 0){
Write-Output "Number of messages in the queue to process is approximately $($numofmsg.ApproximateNumberOfMessages)"
While ($numofmsg.ApproximateNumberOfMessages -gt 0) {
Start-SQSQueueProccessing -SQSQueueUrl $QueueUrl -Verbose
Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
$numofmsg = Get-SQSQueueAttribute -QueueUrl $QueueUrl -AttributeName ApproximateNumberOfMessages
Write-Output "Number of messages is $($numofmsg.ApproximateNumberOfMessages)"
Write-Output "No messages found in the queue to process"
Write-Output "Done processing SQS Messages in the Queue"
How I envision the script being called ala cron or task scheduler for regular execution would be something like…
Import-Module AWSPowerShell
. "$env:userprofile\Documents\PowerShell\WIP\blog\Start-SQSQueuePolling.ps1"
Start-Transcript -Path "$env:userprofile\Documents\PowerShell\WIP\blog\OurSQSPollingLog.txt" -NoClobber -Append
Start-SQSQueuePolling -QueueUrl https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/1234567890/ExampleBlogPostQueue
What does it look like when ran you may be wondering?
The PowerShell transcript output captures the same information. As you may have noticed, the body of the generated SQS messages contains information on who created the SQS message and when it was created which could help for audit trails.
Thanks for following along and happy scripting!
Load PowerShell profiles for scheduled tasks script execution
I stumbled upon an interesting bug today. I tested some PowerShell scripts running from task scheduler on Windows Server 2012 R2 and everything executed fine. However, when I configured the scheduled task for daily execution and checked the log output the next day, the script had failed. None of the service account's PowerShell profiles loaded and the functions I needed were unavailable. This was odd because I tested this entire process the day before, the only difference I could think of was that I was logged in interactively with that service account when I tested the scheduled task the day before.
Armed with this hunch of an assumption I went to the search engines and eventually found Microsoft hotfix 3133689.
So if you ever need to load PowerShell profiles for scheduled tasks, you are going to need that hotfix. Obviously there are much cleaner ways to do what I was trying to do. Additionally having profile dependencies in your scripts or allowing interactive sessions for your service accounts are both far from best practice.
Configure Visual Studio Code to run Python on Windows
Recently I was looking at my IDE options for writing some python applications. I really want to get more familiar with Visual Studio Code so I picked that to begin learning on. My only requirement was to pick an IDE I could use on both Windows and Linux. I know that many other IDEs are more polished and would be easier to configure but I wanted to challenge myself a little.
After I downloaded the latest version of python, I installed python via the executable installer. During the install there is a check box you can select to add python to your path, so I chose that option.
Next up I downloaded Visual Studio Code and also used the executable installer. Again there is an option to add Visual Studio Code to the path environment variable, so I chose that option as well. After a reboot my path looked like this.
You can see the paths to python and Visual Studio Code are present. This should make working with these new tools a bit easier. To make sure I could run python from the shell, I went ahead and launched python from the PowerShell console and outputted some Hello World.
With shell execution confirmed it was time to move on to the IDE configuration. I opened Visual Studio Code and installed the python extension. Then I opened a folder I created in My Documents for python scripts within Visual Studio Code. I had already picked up that opening up a folder in VS code was a first step to code execution from some earlier learning on Ubuntu with PowerShell and Dot NET Core. Inside that new folder, I created HelloWorld.py with a simple print Hello World line. When I went to run the HelloWorld.py with Control+Shift+B, I hit a wall. No task runner configured error. That is where I discovered I needed to configure the task runner to be able to execute python from Visual Studio Code. To configure the task runner, open the command palette either through the Menus via View -> Command Palette or use the keyboard shortcut Control+Shift+P and type Task Configure, to find the configure task runner selection. Then Choose Other, and make your tasks.json look like this:
// See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558
// for the documentation about the tasks.json format
"version": "0.1.0",
"command": "python",
"isShellCommand": true,
"args": ["${file}"],
"showOutput": "always"
All I needed to change was the "command" line to python and the "args" line to ["${file}"], once that was done I was able to execute python from Visual Studio Code as seen below.
Credit to codingisforyou on youtube for making a video covering this as well as diving a bit deeper into the debugging configuration of VS code. In his video he needed to include the full path to the python executable including escaping some of the backslash characters, which I assume is due to python not being in his environment variables.
Now my python environment inside Visual Studio Code is all configured and actually looks like the Microsoft Documentation.
Create VPC Security Groups, Rules, and Tags with PowerShell
Here is some example code which may help you automate security group creation with PowerShell. I wanted to take a look at automating some security group creation tasks today and there wasn't too much help available via search engines. Maybe this post will help that out a bit.
The minimum amount of IAM permissions needed to accomplish this task will be:
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
"Sid": "Stmt1392679134000",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"Resource": [
This snippet of powershell will:
- Lookup the only VPC in your account, provided your regional defaults are set via Initialize-AWSDefaults or the ec2 instance you are running this on. This is helpful as some of the powershell cmdlets only play nice with the default vpc, which many people tend to delete.
- Create a new security group for a load balancer
- Allow HTTP and HTTPS traffic ingress into the load balancer security group
- Create a new security group for a web server
- Allow HTTP from the load balancer to the web server security group
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- ↑ Dubuc, Nicole (writer) & Murphy, Doug (director) (May 5, 2012). "Earthlings". Young Justice. Season 2. Episode 2. Cartoon Network.
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As a longtime Roswellian, I left the breakfast just a little bit jealous. While Roswell has been debating and second-guessing our strategic planning, Alpharetta has been acting. The contrast with Alpharetta, as well as Sandy Springs and Woodstock, is distinct. Don't get me wrong, I didn't leave the breakfast with a "grass is always greener" jealousy (especially as Alpharetta has used Bermuda in its city green which tends to look a bit yellow in winter dormancy.) Instead, I left taking inventory of Roswell's assets and contrasts with Alpharetta.
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I'm writing this blog on a new tool that I'm hoping to use to help bridge the gap between intention and execution. A few months ago, a coworker sent me a link to the Qwerkywriter, a Bluetooth keyboard with the look and feel of a vintage typewriter. It looked to be beautifully crafted, but a bit expensive at $300 for a keyboard with less functionality than one I could pick up for $19.99 on Amazon.com. I thought it would make a great gift for the accomplished writers I know, but not really a sensible purchase for someone who primarily writes blogs about his son's high school football team.
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I still feel the way I did a month ago with the exception of the first sentence. I believe that evangelicals won the election and lost their witness.
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First, let me just say this. If you are one of my wonderful male readers, I want you to know that I know this isn't about you. I just don't think men who are "middle age crazy" would be comfortable enough with who they are to spend any of their time reading a blog with a title about humor and faith. My thought is that if you turn into a sleaze bag, you probably then have to work at being that 24/7!
My friend, C, at Stickhorse Cowgirls is a long-time divorce attorney. She also happens to be a recent divorcee because her husband of over 30 years suddenly experienced this middle-age craziness and left her for a young woman who already had two children by men she was never married to, and they have since had a baby between them (how mind-boggling is that — he's now 60 years old with a new baby!).
So, when I read C's post here about Mel Gibson and the fact that his girlfriend recorded some of his rants, and is now being criticized for it, I knew for a fact that she definitely knows what she is talking about.
I wanted to share this excellent post because if there is anyone (woman OR man) reading this who is in an abusive relationship (and as C says, it isn't just about hitting) or knows someone who is, I hope that C's post will give you some insights and practical advice.
To me, this is what is the best about the blogging world — sharing of valuable insights and advice like this. Thank you, C.


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Get everybody in the reading mood with our Happy Hour Storytime. Ms. Debi will be here with a great stack of bedtime-friendly, pre-school approved books for the small set. As always, pjs are encouraged, and storytime is absolutely free, but please sign up at the link below so we know to expect you. 6:30 PM.
"Get out of the house. Come see what we're up to."
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- 2014/08/15
- 04:07
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As the leaves change colors (OK maybe not in Florida) and the temperature drops (OK also not really in Florida) we prepare ourselves for the next few months of outdoor park days, runny noses and lots of cuddle time! In Florida we don't have a very large transition from summer to fall in the sense of weather. However, many other things change in the few months, especially with a toddler. Here are my must-haves of the season for my little tot and me!
So, I don't think I'm the only one with a sick babe when the season changes. With that being said we stock up in packs on packs on packs of Boogie Wipes. These wipes smell so good and are so gentle. You know what goes hand-in-hand with a runny nose? A sore throat. Poor Chandler gets the nastiest cough to go along with her snotty nose and we've found that above all antibiotics and witch craft, a humidifier has been our #1 choice! Who would've thought we would need a humidifier in Florida?! Lastly, the dryer air not only bring an itchy throat but also dry skin. Noodle & Boo has been our go to lotion since day 1 & I even find myself using it because it feels soooo good!
OK, so I can't sit here and type that the new clothes are "necessities," although everyone deserves an updated closet when the season changes, right?! Fall in Florida is like winter in the morning & summer in the afternoon, so layering is key! Chandler always leaves the house in the morning in 5 layers and comes home in just a diaper. Hehe kidding… kind of. But really!! It will be like 40 degrees in the morning then come noon it's 80, so ridiculous! One thing I do think is a necessity are short sleeved onesies or undershirts. Chandler lives in these not only at home but they are perfect to put under flowy tops or dresses. I'm always so afraid of her being cold because I know it's like the worst feeling. I also overload on accessories like hats, scarves and mittens during this time because not only are the SO CUTE, they are actually practical too.
I know some of you reading this are like "You live in Florida, where is 80 degrees year round" and while yes, that is somewhat true, we do have some super cold days. Like I said before, we have some mornings when we wake up and it's in the 40s!! So during this time I do like to change Chandler's bedding and give her a down comforter and stock up on cozy PJs and socks. Also, this is the time of year when we spend the most time outside because come afternoon it really is the best weather. A trike or good running stroller are awesome during this time whether it's for just going on a walk or walking to the park.
What are your toddler essentials? I am no expert- so I would love the feedback!
XO Ali
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Windows to Fall
Looking out of some windows at a cabin in the north woods I had this idea for a photo. What if I could capture this feeling I was having. Maybe have it so I could be inside my house in Columbus but still be looking out of that cabin.


text: While in Washington, D.C. recently, I enjoyed a visit to the National Portrait Gallery. The museum houses its vast and diverse portrait collection in the city's Old Patent Office Building, which was built from 1836 to 1867. I was struck by the preservation of the building's Greek Revival architecture and the tranquility of the enclosed Kogod Courtyard. John Singer Sargent's remarkable 1903 portrait of General Leonard Wood was on view in the East Gallery. My favorite gallery was that of America's Presidents, which included Anders Zorn's 1899 portrait of Grover Cleveland and my mentor Everett Raymond Kinstler's 1987 portrait of Gerald Ford.


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It's still within the Diwali month & so we're going for one more house visiting. Today we're visiting Govan's house & this is also the first time he is having an open house during Diwali
Usual, fooling around with the boys in Kogu's car while on the way to visitingApart from the home cooked prawns, the rest of the dishes are catered On the way back after the visiting, the little one fall alseepAfter settling down the kids, we went Changi Airport for dinner cos Irene is working overnight shiftSettle ourselves at Fish & CoEh, staffs a little slow on service leh.. food came but cutlery not here My muslim boy friend can use hand, I cannot leh =DThe Best Fish & Chips in Town!Chilli Crab Spaghetti. Oh, now it comes served with spoon... hahaGrilled Peri-Peri Chicken with Arctic FishNew York Fish & ChipsLondon Fish & ChipsHappy dinner, everyone!
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60 Airport Boulevard
#036-058, Singapore 819643
Tel: 6546 4485
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Good Monday morning folks. Welcome back to the Meet My Character Monday Blog Hop. Today I want to introduce you to Avery, another character from my upcoming suspense/thriller HIM. Avery is one of the main characters in HIM. He is sixteen years old and is Amy's little brother.
Avery is your typical teenage boy, playing sports, hanging with his friends, and grossing out his sister. In the very first scene in the novel, we see him acting out and trying to aggravate his mother, sister, and cousin.
"I can swim this," Avery, my little brother, said in a defiant tone to our cousin Jake. The two boys were leaning against the railing of the ferry, pretending to calculate the distance between Little Paw, our grandfather's island, which lay in front of us, and Yellow Head, a town on the mainland of South Carolina's southern coast just north of Tybee National Wildlife Refuge, which lay behind us.
"No, you couldn't," Jake countered. "It's nearly two miles from dock to dock. You'd never make it."
"I bet I could. You couldn't though," Avery bated him, then hawked up a wad of spit and let it slowly drip from his mouth to the water.
The most important thing to know about Avery is that when push comes to shove, he has his sister's back. The following scene shows that he willingly puts himself between Amy and her abuser, and takes Amy's side over his mother's, the person who should believe Amy, but doesn't.
I moved my chair out a little more. As I started to rise, my brother stood up in front of me. Even though Avery was two years younger than I was, he was taller and bigger. He moved in front of me, blocking me from his view if he happened to look our way.
"Avery?" Mom asked, watching him. His protective action baffled her.
"We're leaving, mother," he said through gritted teeth.
By protecting his sister though, he does put himself in harm's way a number of times. At the end of the novel, he takes a few blows to the head while trying to keep his uncle away from his sister.
I heard Avery call Shane's name, then mine, then I jerked my head in his direction in time to see my little brother hit the ground. Shocked, I lunged for my brother, turned him around, and saw a massive gash leaking blood across his forehead.
"He'll live," he said from behind me where Shane lay. I turned to see him kneeling over Shane, gun pointed at his head. "Get up, and go inside."
To find out more about what happens to Amy and Shane, check out the novel's Facebook page or read the first chapter on Goodreads. This novel has a tentative release date of January 2015.
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