AWS - Deployment via OpsWorks from the command line

Below is a simple python script which performs application deployment using OpsWorks API library (boto). Script performs following steps

  • Execute ‘update_custom_cookbooks’ deployment command and wait for successful completion (or stop with an error)
  • Execute ‘deploy’ command and wait for completion

At the top there are aws configuration parameters (aws_access_key, aws_secret_key) - these can be left empty if the script is launched on the AWS instance which has IAM role assigned.

#!/usr/bin/python

import boto.opsworks
from datetime import datetime
import time
import sys
import logging

stack_id="mystackid" # see this in the opsworks stack properties
app_id="myappid" # see this in the opsworks app properties
aws_access_key = "my_access_key"
aws_secret_key = "my_secret_key"
ec2_region_name = 'us-east-1' # your region name
# see region endpoints - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html
ec2_region_endpoint = 'region_endpoint'

def wait_for_deployment(deployment_id):
    print('Waiting for deployment %s to complete' % deployment_id)
    while True:
        result = opsworks.describe_deployments(deployment_ids=[deployment_id])
        data = result['Deployments'][0]
        if data['Status'] == 'running':
            sys.stdout.write('.')
        elif data['Status'] == 'successful':
            print('Done %s' % deployment_id)
            return
        elif data['Status'] == 'failed':
            print('Failed %s' % deployment_id)
            raise Exception('Deployment failed')
        else:
            raise Exception('Unknown deployment stauts: %s' % data['Status'])
        sys.stdout.flush()
        time.sleep(3)

if aws_access_key:
    opsworks = boto.opsworks.connect_to_region(ec2_region_name, aws_access_key_id=aws_access_key, aws_secret_access_key=aws_secret_key)
else:
    opsworks = boto.opsworks.connect_to_region(ec2_region_name)

result = opsworks.create_deployment(stack_id, {"Name":"update_custom_cookbooks"}, app_id)
print('Update custom cookbooks %s' % result)
wait_for_deployment(result['DeploymentId'])

result = opsworks.create_deployment(stack_id, {"Name":"deploy"}, app_id)
print('Deploy %s' % result)
wait_for_deployment(result['DeploymentId'])

The script launches deployment command and then polls its status every three seconds until it completes or fails. Results look like this:

$ ./deploy.py
Update custom cookbooks {u'DeploymentId': u'e83a0100-52b2-2fe1-ad26-1db85b62dbfb'}
Waiting for deployment e83a0100-52b2-2fe1-ad26-1db85b62dbfb to complete
........................Done e83a0100-52b2-2fe1-ad26-1db85b62dbfb
Deploy {u'DeploymentId': u'85fda652-f215-25fd-b13d-e061adccf535'}
Waiting for deployment 85fda652-f215-25fd-b13d-e061adccf535 to complete
.................................Done 85fda652-f215-25fd-b13d-e061adccf535

Here is also a similar shell script. It is simpler than the python code and just launches deployments without waiting for results:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

STACK_ID=0a000a00-00a0-00a0-0000-00a00000000a
APP_ID=00aa000a-aaaa-000a-0a00-a000000a0000

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=xXXxxxxxXXxXXxxXXxXXxxxxXxxXxxxxXXXxXxXX

aws opsworks --region us-east-1 create-deployment --stack-id $STACK_ID --app-id $APP_ID --command "{\"Name\":\"update_custom_cookbooks\"}"
aws opsworks --region us-east-1 create-deployment --stack-id $STACK_ID --app-id $APP_ID --command "{\"Name\":\"deploy\"}"

OpsWorks cli - create-deployment command

OpsWorks docs:Deploy an App (create-deployment)

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