Hear you and welcome back now in today's video, we will be discussing about the systems to manage it
automation now at the high level overview automation is a capability of a systems manager service that
allows us to simplify common maintenance and deployment dusk on Essiedu and other IWC resources.
So, for example, let's say that there are multiple easy two instances and there are a lot of common
tasks that you'll regularly do.
Maybe you'll be stopping you see two instance, and maybe you'll taking an e-mail to these easy to instant.
Maybe you'll be performing patching activities.
Maybe you want to attach a year embroil to the set of easy to instances and so on.
So all of these common maintenance dust, you can go ahead and do it through automation.
So automation consists of multiple tasks that are already available, and you can use this task to perform
this specific activity automatically.
So this is the basic overview.
Let's do one thing.
Let's jump into practical and understand it in more detail.
Now, currently, I mean, these systems manager console and on the left hand, and let's quickly open
up the automation in Soviet Union.
Let's go ahead and execute the automation so there are multiple tasks that are already readily available.
Now you can use any of these tasks to perform a specific use case.
So you see you have so many tasks of attaching a EBS volume, attaching IEEE in to instance, then you
have close security remains to many others, and everything is part of a specific category.
So if you want to look into the security category here, you will see the tasks associated with security
and so on.
So what we'll be doing in today's video will be picking up a few exemplary tasks, and we'll look into
how automation can really help, you know, one of the interesting tasks that you can look into.
Let's say stop BECTU and within you, there are two of them.
When is the stop EC2 instance?
And second is stop easy to instance with a approval.
So the second one is quite interesting when no video means you'll basically see a lot of information
related to what exactly it is all about.
So you have also steps that are available, so you have step one, which is approved so only after approval
take place.
The step two is stop instances.
So let's do one thing before we go and explore things in more detail.
Let's go ahead and try it out and see what exactly this does.
So let's go ahead and execute automation here and within.
You know what we need.
We need to give, for instance.
80.
So let's go ahead and click on Show Interactive instance speaker and you're ELSS show all instances.
We have an easy to inspect that is that any I'll select that the next one is the approver where you'll
have to specify the IEM user or the user, and that will approve this specific activity.
Now, as we've already seen that there were two steps that were involved.
One is approval and second one was top instance.
So we didn't approve.
Let's give a IAM user name, at least within the approval group.
And the next important thing that is required is a S10's Topic ID..
So you see, it is required.
And from here, you'll basically get the email.
So let's do one thing.
Let's quickly open up this.
And this year, in case if you do not really have a topic, you can quickly create a new phase in this
topic here.
Les this Colter's demo is in this topic will create a topic, will create a subscription of type email,
and let's give the email ID.
And let's quickly create a subscription.
So now we'll have to go ahead and approve it.
No, from the email, you can quickly do confirm subscription and greater subscription is confirm.
So now going back to our topic, let's copy the air in here and we'll paste the air in in the air in
this topic.
Here it once, then you can go ahead and click on Execute Perfect.
So currently the overall status is in progress and what will really happen here.
Is that true, isn't it?
You'll basically get the email and the email will ask you to.
Gordon approved the team, so you have two steps you have approved and you have written.
Now, one interesting thing is that even though you are logged in as the administrator user.
So basically, I am using with administrator access.
Even through that, if you go ahead and try to approve it, let's try and do that.
So lets it approve.
I'll click on submit and immediately.
You see you got an error stating that the user Alice needs to approve it.
No other user will be able to go ahead and approve this specific step and from a different browser window
time logged in with the AM user of Alice.
And from here, let's go ahead and.
Copy the link that we had received over email.
Within yet, I list user, since this user is within the approved list, the user can either approve
or deny.
Let's do an approval to see what automation will do as part of Step two perfect.
So currently, now you see the approval step is success, and this top instance step is in progress.
And if you would want to see the Essiedu instance state as well, let's look into it.
And now you see ADC to instance is in this dobbed speed and the scene is reflected in the executed steps.
Great.
I hope you understood the automation and its important use cases.
Now let's do one thing.
Let's also take up one more use case so that we have a greater amount of exposure related to various
automation task.
Now, one more thing before that, I wanted to show you sort of a way you, Gordon, open up one of
the automation document.
So let's go a big down.
So we have already seen that there are multiple steps that are part of a specific automation document.
However, if we look into the content.
So this is the actual content which does a lot of things for you.
And you can go ahead and modify this depending upon your use case as well.
So this is one important part.
Do not know.
Let's go back to the systems manager.
Let's open up the automation and this thing.
Will Gordon associata IBM role?
Do you see two instance?
So let's see if I am.
And let's see what comes up here.
So you have a dabblers attach IBM to instance, log in.
There are a lot of things that are available will be using the first one here and now if we look into
the step as part of this document, you have described instance profile.
Take the instance profile association, the associate list, take instance, attach IBM profile to instance,
and there are lot of steps that are available to you now.
If you look into the content again, there are lot of contents that are available.
So let's do one thing.
Let's go ahead and try this out as well.
So I'll execute this automation.
And let's also do one thing let's open up this easy to and under the security.
Let's verify the instance profile here in this Essiedu Haven system.
Alright, so now let's do one thing first.
Let's go ahead and specify the instance ID.
So I copy the instance childhood.
Let's paste it.
The second thing is the role name.
So currently I have a roll call is based haven, a system for testing purposes.
So we will be using this specific role, name based haven system.
And you also have the option for force replace in case if you want to do that and that's about it,
let's go ahead and execute this automation document.
Great.
So it states success.
Let's go to security.
And now you see the IBM role has changed to test their system.
Great.
So I hope now you understood the automation feature in more detail.
Now again, one important part to note is that automation can be used to go ahead and perform activity
in multiple instances together.
So let's say that there are ten easy to instant and you undergirded associate IBM roll to all of those
ten.
You see two incidents so you can quickly create the automation document that is available from the IWC
and specify the appropriate parameters like the new ADM name.
And then the automation will go ahead and associate and all with the easy to instance and various other
activities that you might want to perform.
So with this will conclude today's video.