Dotfiles

My shell and other tool configs, currently includes:

• (neo)vim
• tmux
• git
• .zshrc
• peco

Vim

I'm currently still using pathogen to install my vim plugins, to make it easier i've added a bootstrap.sh script that will install them all. Also I've recently tidied up my .vimrc file to make it easier to follow. Here's what my current setup looks like :)

Aliases

I have a number of useful aliases that I've been using over the years, some of them I found online, other's I've written myself, they're all documented. I'll mention one or two in more detail here.

awslookup

I needed a quick tool to lookup instances in several aws accounts. The aws cli is very good for this but querying it can be quite difficult. I created a small wrapper script around a query I created that lets me list information about instances based on the tag:Name.

To use it make sure you have configured your aws cli correctly, you should have a ~/.aws/config file that contains you're preferred regions:

[default]
region = eu-west-1

[profile staging]
region = eu-west-1

[profile production]
region = eu-west-1

and your ~/.aws/credentials file should name each profile and specify the keys to use e.g:

[default]
aws_access_key_id = <XXX>
aws_secret_access_key = <XXX>

[production]
aws_access_key_id = <XXX>
aws_secret_access_key = <XXX>

[staging]
aws_access_key_id = <XXX>
aws_secret_access_key = <XXX

Then to use the tool the command is:

awslookup <profile> <string to match>

e.g

awslookup staging persona*

It outputs a table with the matching instance details: