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How fucked is AWS CLI/API – rant and vision of alternative

3 points by ilyash 9y ago

carlsborg 9y ago
Wrote something similar once. See dustcluster on github. https://github.com/carlsborg/dust https://github.com/carlsborg/dust Lessons: aws cli is written in python on top of the botocore aws api lib and is mostly data driven off a Json spec for a reason : the pace at which aws puts out new features makes it very hard to keep up with.
- ilyash 9y ago
  dustcluster looks very interesting. I will take a deeper look into it. I remember seen JSON spec files a while ago in boto. I couldn't find them when I tried recently. I was thinking about using the spec in my tool. Meanwhile I'm experimenting so it's not very important but I should definitely find the spec later. edit: dustcluster is more focused on EC2 and interaction with the machines