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AWS CLI Intro

AWS CLI Intro
Difficulty:

Try out some basic AWS command line skills in this terminal. Talk to Jill Underpole in the Cloud Ring for hints.

Elf Introduction

Jill Underpole

Umm, can I help you?
Me? I'm Jill Underpole, thank you very much.
I'm working on this here smoke terminal.
Cloud? Sure, whatever you want to call it.
Anyway, you're welcome to try this out, if you think you know what you're doing.
You'll have to learn some basics about the AWS command line interface (CLI) to be successful though.

Solution

Open the terminal next to Jill Underpole to start the AWS CLI tutorial, and answer the questions using either the instructions or the help references.


You may not know this, but AWS CLI help messages are very easy to access. First, try typing:
$ aws help

Answer 
elf@349ba0da09f9:~$ aws help


Great! When you're done, you can quit with q.
Next, please configure the default aws cli credentials with the access key AKQAAYRKO7A5Q5XUY2IY, the secret key qzTscgNdcdwIo/soPKPoJn9sBrl5eMQQL19iO5uf and the region us-east-1 .
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-quickstart.html#cli-configure-quickstart-config

For this task we just need to enter the aws configure command and respond to the prompts.

Answer 
elf@349ba0da09f9:~$ aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: AKQAAYRKO7A5Q5XUY2IY
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: qzTscgNdcdwIo/soPKPoJn9sBrl5eMQQL19iO5uf
Default region name [None]: us-east-1
Default output format [None]: 
elf@349ba0da09f9:~$


Excellent! To finish, please get your caller identity using the AWS command line. For more details please reference:
$ aws sts help
or reference:
https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/sts/index.html

For this task we just need to enter the aws sts command to get our caller identity, which can be found in the help reference.

Answer 
elf@349ba0da09f9:~$ aws sts get-caller-identity
{
    "UserId": "AKQAAYRKO7A5Q5XUY2IY",
    "Account": "602143214321",
    "Arn": "arn:aws:iam::602143214321:user/elf_helpdesk"
}
elf@349ba0da09f9:~$

Completion

Jill Underpole

Wait, you got it done, didn't you?
Ok, consider me impressed. You could probably help Gerty, too.
The first trick'll be running the Trufflehog tool.
It's as good at sniffing out secrets as I am at finding mushrooms!
After that, it's just a matter of getting to the secret the tool found.
I'd bet a basket of portobellos you'll get this done!