Tagged: aws

We use asgard at work to do deployments in both qa and production. Our general flow is to check in, have jenkins build, an AMI is created, and then … we have to manually go to asgard and deploy it. That sucks.

However, its actually not super hard to write some scripts to find the latest AMI for a cluster and prepare an automated deployment pipeline from a template. Here you go:

function asgard(){
  verb=$1
  url="https://my.asgard.com/us-east-1/$2"
  shift
  http ${VERB} --verify=no "$url" -b
}

function next-ami(){
  cluster=$1

  prepare-ami $cluster true | \
    jq ".environment.images | reverse | .[0]"
}

function prepare-ami(){
  cluster=$1

  includeEnv=$2

  asgard GET "deployment/prepare/${cluster}?deploymentTemplateName=CreateAndCleanUpPreviousAsg&includeEnvironment=${includeEnv}"
}

function get-next-ami(){
  cluster=$1

  next=`next-ami ${cluster} | jq ".id"`

  prepare-ami ${cluster} "false" | jq ".lcOptions.imageId |= ${next}"
}

function start-deployment(){
  cluster=$1
  payload=$2

  echo $payload | asgard POST "deployment/start/${cluster}"
}

The gist here is to

• Find the next AMI image of a cluster
• Get the prepared

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