Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Go

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Post by jeffbarr » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 5:56 PM UTC

Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Go
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Re: Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Go

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Post by jvermillard » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 6:23 PM UTC

I hope they will rewrite awscli with it. Today it's quite painful to run it on coreos (python/pip ran in a container)

Re: Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Go

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Post by fletchowns » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 6:51 PM UTC

jvermillard wrote: post #2

I hope they will rewrite awscli with it. Today it's quite painful to run it on coreos (python/pip ran in a container)

Why is it painful?

Re: Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Go

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Post by stephen-mw » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 7:24 PM UTC

I checked this out when it was part of Stripe. I found it worked very well for my limited use-cases.

Personally I just prefer python and boto for most of my AWS tools, but times where I've switched to go is to take advantage of static compiling and concurrency:

1. Listing all of my AWS instances in all accounts in all regions (lots of api calls!) 2. Downloading/uploading large files via multipart API 3. Various server-side configurations

Re: Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Go

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Post by NateDad » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 7:28 PM UTC

Very exciting to see an official SDK for AWS. We'll be looking into using this for Juju.

Re: Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Go

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Post by astockwell » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 7:42 PM UTC

jvermillard wrote: post #2

I hope they will rewrite awscli with it. Today it's quite painful to run it on coreos (python/pip ran in a container)

Legacy CentOS too

Re: Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Go

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Post by darkr » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 7:42 PM UTC

This is great news. I've been using goamz for some coreOS presence/sidekick containers, but found it quite lacking in quality, with a lot of missing functionality.

The ability to build a container that clocks in at under 10MB (vs ~700MB for a ruby aws-sdk stack) based on a minimal busybox container and a standalone go binary makes it an ideal use case for presence or short-running cron-type containers.

Also, the quality of the existing AWS sdk clients (especially with the most recent major versions) has been excellent (at least in my experience with the ruby and PHP libraries).

Re: Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Go

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Post by kolev » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 8:30 PM UTC

fletchowns wrote: post #3

jvermillard wrote: post #2

I hope they will rewrite awscli with it. Today it's quite painful to run it on coreos (python/pip ran in a container)

Why is it painful?

Because if not run in a container, you should put things that upgrade Requests in a venv at least otherwise you may end up breaking apt.

Re: Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Go

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Post by kolev » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 8:33 PM UTC

No credit or good words for Stripe where this originated?

Re: Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Go

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Post by themckman » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 9:01 PM UTC

jvermillard wrote: post #2

I hope they will rewrite awscli with it. Today it's quite painful to run it on coreos (python/pip ran in a container)

You might consider taking a look at Twitter's pex. Python supports importing and running code from zip files. pex aids in bundling python code and its dependencies into an executable zip file.