A slack bot with commands for interrogating your AWS environment

 npm install -g coffee-script 

 brew install redis 

Visit this link to add a new bot to your slack team: https://my.slack.com/services/new/bot

If you belong to multiple slack teams, then be sure to select the appropriate team from the drop down box in the upper right hand corner.

Create a config.json file that includes the region, access key, and secret key, for the role your bot uses for interacting with AWS via the SDK. Example for US West (Oregon):

{ "region" : "us-west-2", "accessKeyId" : "YOUR_ACCESS_KEY", "secretAccessKey" : "YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY" }

 HUBOT_SLACK_TOKEN=xoxb-YOUR-TOKEN-HERE ./bin/hubot --adapter slack 

• findinst
• descinst
• startinst
• stopinst
• crtopic
• deltopic

findinst | find instance

Find EC2 instances using the "findinst" or "find instance" command by passing a tag name and a regex value for the tag value. A response listing the EC2 instance IDs and the current state will be returned.

If you have two instances with "aws" in the name, with one instance stopped and the other instance running, then a response like the following will be returned:

 findinst Name aws 

 my-aws-instance-1 : i-0a1b2c3d4e5f : stopped my-aws-instance-2 : i-9a8b7c6d5e4f : running 

descinst | describe instance

List information about a specific EC2 instance using the "descinst" or "describe instance" command by passing the EC2 instance ID:

 descinst i-0a1b2c3d4e5f 

The name, state, EBS volume info, tags, etc will be returned for any valid EC2 instance ID.

startinst|start instance

Start a stopped EC2 instance using the "startinst" or "start instance" command by passing the EC2 instance ID:

 startinst i-a1b2c3d4e5f6 

The previous and current state of the EC2 instance will be returned.

 Instance ID : i-a1b2c3d4e5f6 Previous state: stopped Current state : pending 

stopinst|stop instance

Stop a running EC2 instance using the "stopinst" or "stop instance" command by passing the EC2 instance ID:

 stopinst i-a1b2c3d4e5f6 

The previous and current state of the EC2 instance will be returned.

 Instance ID : i-a1b2c3d4e5f6 Previous state: running Current state : stopping 

crtopic | create topic

Create an SNS topic using the "create topic" or "crtopic" command by passing the topic name:

 create topic my-sns-topic 

The reply will be the SNS ARN:

 TopicArn : arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:012345678901:my-sns-topic 

deltopic | delete topic

Delete an SNS topic using the "delete topic" or "deltopic" command by passing the topic ARN:

 delete topic arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:012345678901:my-sns-topic 

The reply will be the request ID:

 Request ID : a1b2c3d4-a1b2-c3d4-e5f6-a1b2c3d4e5f6