The 'Tag-Display' Release
This release has substantial code changes, feature additions, and prepares for the future.
- All tags & values are displayed for each instance with the
list
command- tag names & values now stored with other instance data
- many future features enabled by this enhancement
- Use the * wildcard with any command:
awss list Ub*
orawss stop Deb*
- Enter commands without specifying a target to chose from the picklist
- particularly useful for
awss stop
to list running servers then select them from list
- particularly useful for
- user input for picklist now uses enter key vs. single keypress
- necessary for users with more than 9 instances in their lists
- SSH login-name detection enhanced & can detect the instance OS if the
name is anywhere in the AMI-name string (not just the beginning) - rewrote the data collection logic that retrieves information about instances
- docstrings added throughout most of the code
- this reduces traffic to AWS by 50 to 200%
- makes it easier to test on CI machines without AWS credentials