How to execute commands on AWS Instance using Boto3

Question

Can anyone tell me if we can execute Shell Commands using Boto3 on Launched AWS instance.

I read at few places about "boto.manage.cmdshell" but it is deprecated in Boto3.

Appreciate any help.

Regards, Saurabh

Answer 1

ssm_client = boto3.client('ssm')
response = ssm_client.send_command(
            InstanceIds=['i-03#####'],
            DocumentName="AWS-RunShellScript",
            Parameters={'commands': ['start ecs']}, )

command_id = response['Command']['CommandId']
output = ssm_client.get_command_invocation(
      CommandId=command_id,
      InstanceId='i-03######',
    )
print(output)

Answer 2

ssm = boto3.client('ssm' )    
testCommand = ssm.send_command( InstanceIds=[ 'i-123123123123' ], DocumentName='AWS-RunShellScript', Comment='la la la', OutputS3BucketName='myOutputS3Bucket', OutputS3KeyPrefix='i-123123123123', Parameters={ "commands":[ "ip config" ]  } )

i-123123123123 is a pretend ec2 instance id. I put that in the OutputS3KeyPrefix to get a unique place to store logs in the bucket.

You can install the ssm agent like this;

ec2r = boto3.resource('ec2' )
userdata = """#cloud-config
    runcmd:
     - /home/ec2-user/sudo npm run prod
     - cd /tmp
     - curl https://amazon-ssm-%s.s3.amazonaws.com/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm -o amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
     - yum install -y amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
""" % region   

if ssm == "on":
    instance = ec2r.create_instances( ImageId=ami, MinCount=1, MaxCount=1, KeyName=keyname, InstanceType=instancetype, 
        NetworkInterfaces=[{
        'DeviceIndex': 0,
        'AssociatePublicIpAddress': False,
        'SubnetId': mySub,
        'Groups': secGroupList,
        'AssociatePublicIpAddress': AssociatePublicIpAddress
    }],
        Monitoring={ 'Enabled': False },

        UserData=userdata,
        IamInstanceProfile={
            'Name': rolename
        },
        EbsOptimized=False
    )