aws-marketplace-cli

A friendlier way to manage your AWS Marketplace products from the command line and based on the configuration persisted in source control

Why?

• Because the AWS Marketplace is a PITA to manage from the GUI
• Because doing it from the AWS CLI is even less user friendy

Installation Instructions

You need to a working Go installation, you can get Go from https://go.dev/, then run the following command:

go install github.com/LeanerCloud/aws-marketplace-cli

Usage

• Authenticate to your AWS account using credentials using the usual environment variables.

• List all your AWS Marketplace products:

$ aws-marketplace-cli list ContainerProduct
AutoSpotting
EBS Optimizer

• Dump a given product to a YAML file in the current working directory:

$ aws-marketplace-cli dump AutoSpotting
Data written to data/AutoSpotting/description.yaml

• Have a look at the YAML configuration, and feel free to edit it at will with your favorite editor.

$ cat data/AutoSpotting/description.yaml
description:
  highlights:
  - Up to 90% cost savings by automatically replacing On-Demand AutoScaling group
    nodes with identically configured Spot instances
  - Increased instance type diversification and failover to on-demand for high availability.
  - Can keep a percentage or number of On-Demand capacity running in your AutoScaling
    groups.
  longdescription: |-
    All you need to do is:

    1. Install AutoSpotting from the AWS Marketplace by using CloudFormation or
    Terraform. You need to click `Continue to Subscribe` on the top right and follow the
    instructions until the end.

• Once you have edited the YAML configuration, you can apply it to your AWS Marketplace product:

$ aws-marketplace-cli update-description AutoSpotting
Updating product
Changeset created successfully

• Feel free to persist this YAML file in your source control, and maybe maintain it as a private fork.

Current Features

• dump the product details in a YAML file
• update the product details from locally changed YAML file
• dump all versions of a product to distinct YAML files
• clone an existing version into a new version, by copying its YAML file locally
• create a new version on the AWS Marketplace from a local YAML file

Potential future work (contributions welcome!)

• Apply changes to a published version is its local YAML file has been changed
• make the clone replace the existing version string inside the cloned YAML file content
• List remote versions
• Unpublish a remote version
• Add support for managing AMI products
• add unit tests for all functionality

License

This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License V3