A Short Golang AWS Example

I must say I am falling in love with Golang this programming language allows me to easily write code or script that I can easily compile and run on any platform and yes I am mean any platform.

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Here is a short example of a simple piece of code that allowed me to get my real internet IP address.

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"net/http"
	"runtime"
)

func main() {
	res, _ := http.Get("https://api.ipify.org")
	ip, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
	fmt.Println("My Internet IP:", string(ip))
}

Now that was not the real reason that you are reading this post you wanted to see a simple example of using AWS with Go.

The sample below is a simple CLI built that allows you to create a keypair for AWS.

I will not go into much detail in this post I will just show you the code ...

package main

import (
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"os"

	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/awserr"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/session"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/ec2"
)

var (
	pairname string
	region   string
	svc      *ec2.EC2
)

func exitErrorf(msg string, args ...interface{}) {
	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, msg+"\n", args...)
	os.Exit(1)
}

func savePem(f string, k string) error {

	return ioutil.WriteFile(f, []byte(k), 0666)

}

func main() {

	pairname := flag.String("k", "", "Keypair Name To Create (Required)")
	region := flag.String("r", "us-east-1", "Region name")
	flag.Parse()

	if *pairname == "" {
		flag.PrintDefaults()
		os.Exit(1)
	}

	svc = ec2.New(session.New(&aws.Config{Region: aws.String(*region)}))

	keyresult, err := svc.CreateKeyPair(&ec2.CreateKeyPairInput{
		KeyName: aws.String(*pairname),
	})

	if err != nil {
		if aerr, ok := err.(awserr.Error); ok && aerr.Code() == "InvalidKeyPair.Duplicate" {
			exitErrorf("Keypair %q already exists.", *pairname)
		}
		exitErrorf("Unable to create key pair: %s, %v.", *pairname, err)
	}

	savePem(*pairname+".pem", *keyresult.KeyMaterial)

	fmt.Printf("Created key pair %q %s\n%s\n",
		*keyresult.KeyName, *keyresult.KeyFingerprint,
		*keyresult.KeyMaterial)
}

https://gist.github.com/devonartis/e36b785e2b844197a50eaf61591decbe