Effective DevOps with AWS

Using a script to create an MFA session

To create our sessions, we are going to use an open source script created by the same author as Scout2, we will clone the repository and install the dependencies as follows:

$ git clone https://github.com/nccgroup/AWS-recipes
$ cd AWS-recipes
$ pip install -r requirements.txt  

The script we want to use is in the Python directory:

$ cd Python  

The script we want to run is called aws_recipes_init_sts_session.py:

$ aws_recipes_init_sts_session.py
Saved STS credentials expired on 2017-02-12 10:28:48+00:00
Enter your MFA code (or 'q' to abort):
446054  

We assume here that you previously went through the MFA initialization steps as requested in Chapter 2, Deploying Your First Web Application. If you haven't ...