AWS CloudWatch permissions cronjob

Needed files

How to create the Canary

1. Create a python virtualenv

   mkdir lhm-grant
   cd lhm-grant
   python3 -m venv .venv
   source .venv/bin/activate

2. Download the requirements.txt into the created lhm-grant folder

3. Install required packages

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Copy all the installed libraries into a folder called python

   mkdir python
   cp -rfv .venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/* python/

5. Download aws_main.py and python_provisioning.py into the python directory

6. Modify the main script and provide the needed information for the grant code in the section marked for change

7. Create an archive with the python folder

   zip -r9 lhm-grant.zip python

8. Upload the archive to s3

9. Create CloudWatch canary from s3 bucket artifact
   

   

Notes:

to check the logs of a run you will download the artifacts archive from that run, unzip it and there should be a file called python_provisioning.log