Monthly Archives: September 2019

Cloudformation templates for existing resources

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You can use the AWS CLI to get a description of existing resources. This description is in JSON format, which can sometimes directly be used as a Cloudformation template.

Example:

aws glue get-job --job-name MyJobName

Makes the job easier! For example with the Glue job, we can see the undocumented options

"--enable-metrics": ""
"--TempDir": "s3://blablubbtest"
"--enable-continuous-cloudwatch-log": "true"

So since Cloudformation is a pain to debug, a possible way to write a template might be to click together the resources with the Console, then get the description with the CLI and use this to create the resources with Cloudformation next time.

Disable graphical prompt for ssh passphrase

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When I open a ssh session in the terminal, it asks for my passphrase in a graphical prompt window. That would be ok in theory. But I don’t know my passphrase. So I need to copy it from my password manager. And unfortunately the stupid window doesn’t allow me to access anything else. So, I wanted to disable it.

The usual way is with the environment variable SSH_ASKPASS. To disable the graphical prompt, just remove the value of this variable:

unset SSH_ASKPASS

Unfortunately, in my case this did not work and I needed to remove also another variable:

unset SSH_AUTH_SOCK