Checking Resources in AWS Console

Summary

Cloud platform has readonly access to the AWS Console to view the resourses provisioned.

Full Guidance

To find the resource needed, the resource name needs obtaining.

Steps

1. Get the name from the secret is kubernetes
2. Log in to the console
3. Find the resourse

Example

We are looking for the database for the metadata presenter in the test environment.

1. Get the database indentifier (aws name) which can be found found in the kubernetes secrets

kubectl -n formbuilder-saas-test get secrets

Locate the secret for rds-instance-formbuilder-metadata-api-test

kubectl -n formbuilder-saas-test get secrets rds-instance-formbuilder-metadata-api-test -o json

The name is within the url, it will need Base64 decoding

echo cG9zdGdyZXM6Ly9yYW5kb25sZXR0ZXJzbnVtYmVyczpyYW5kb25sZXR0ZXJzbnVtYmVyc0BjbG91ZC1wbGF0Zm9ybS1yYW5kb25sZXR0ZXJzbnVtYmVycy5yYW5kb25sZXR0ZXJzbnVtYmVycy5ldS13ZXN0LTIucmRzLmFtYXpvbmF3cy5jb206NTQzMi9yYW5kb25sZXR0ZXJzbnVtYmVycwo= | base64 -d

Output: postgres://randomlettersnumbers:randomlettersnumbers@cloud-platform-randomlettersnumbers.randomlettersnumbers.eu-west-2.rds.amazonaws.com:5432/randomlettersnumbers

Extract the db indentifier cloud-platform-randomlettersnumbers portion of the url.

• Open the AWS Console

• Navigate to Aurora and RDS

• Databases

• In the search, paste the db indentifier and search.

• Click into the found database.

Same process from the other resorces.

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