Where Am I?

Have you ever been on multiple AWS boxes at once and you don't remember what the box is for? The whereami command now makes it simple to figure out just where the $^@* you actually are.

Installation

Forget fancy install scripts. Just wget the shell script and move it into the /usr/bin directory. But make sure your user / role has the correct permissions to run this script.

First, ensure you have the AWS CLI installed:

sudo apt-get install python-pip -y
sudo pip install awscli

Then install the whereami script:

wget -q --output-document whereami https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhyeal/whereami/master/whereami && chmod a+x whereami && sudo mv whereami /usr/bin/whereami

If you get an error while running, ensure your user/role has the following IAM permission:

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {    
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [ "ec2:DescribeTags"],
      "Resource": ["*"]
    }
  ]
}

Usage

Simply type whereami from the command line to get a print out of the box information.