Opsworks -- Quickly Listing Hosts on the Command Line

Here’s a great example of using the aws-cli to speed up your life. Uses jq and aws-cli

  # bash / zsh function
  function opsworks-hosts-prod () {
  	aws opsworks describe-instances --stack-id=fffff-fffff-ffff-fff-fffffff | jq '.Instances[].PublicDns' | grep -v null | sed s/\"//g
  }
  # usage
  $ opsworks-hosts-prod
  XXXXX.compute-1.amazonaws.com
  XXXXX.compute-1.amazonaws.com
  XXXXX.compute-1.amazonaws.com
  XXXXX.compute-1.amazonaws.com