ACM.392 Passing in a parameter value for an AWS SSM Parameter
In the last I explained how I’m going to production and non-production environments and repositories in my organization. Repositories are one of the keys to governance and security in your cloud account.
Before I proceed with creating accounts, I need to clean up my Systems Manager Parameter code. I’m also not sure I need all my parameters but for now I’m leaving them.
The issue is that the script was initially run by root but now it’s run by my rootadminrole in a container. The script in the container cannot be interactive so I have to pass some values into the container instead.
I wrote about trying to store those parameters in an SSM parameter, but I’d have to manually create a parameter to automate the creation of a parameter and that doesn’t really make sense. For these simple scripts I want to pass in the parameter, but how should I do it?
ry I could pass in domain=something the domain parameter and org=something for the org parameter but what’s wrong with that picture? Our parameter list is going to change every time and become very messy. I want a standard input list, so the last argument passed into the container is going to be an optional single argument which is a list of parameters.
Domain SSM parameter
I’m removing dynamic SSM parameters as they pose the problems mentioned in this post:
I move the parameters out of the organization deploy script put the org and domain parameters into their own files. As I mentioned I’m not sure I still need the environment parameter but it’s easy to add if needed.
I request the values in the local test script and pass it into the container as parameters in this format:
