AWS SSM Parameters Store - amazon-web-services

Question

Is there anyway to just nuke / remove all items in AWS Parameters Store?
All the command line I found are to remove it either one by one or remove it given a list of names.
I also tried using
aws ssm delete-parameters --cli-input-json test.json
with test.json file looks like this
{
"Names": [
"test1",
"test2"
]
}
still does not work..
Ideally if I can use --query and use it as is, that'd be great.
I'm using --query like so
aws ssm get-parameters-by-path --path / --max-items 2 --query 'Parameters[*].[Name]'

Answer 1

When you need to delete all parameters by path in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store and there are more than 10 parameters you have to deal with pagination.
Otherwise, an the command will fail with the error:
An error occurred (ValidationException) when calling the DeleteParameters operation: 1 validation error detected: Value '[/config/application/prop1, ...]' at 'names' failed to satisfy constraint: Member must have length less than or equal to 10
The following Bash script using AWS CLI pagination options deletes any number of parameters from AWS SSM Parameter Store by path:
#!/bin/bash
path=/config/application_dev/
while : ; do
aws ssm delete-parameters --names $(aws ssm get-parameters-by-path --path "$path" --query "Parameters[*].Name" --output text --max-items 10 $starting_token | grep -v None)
next_token=$(aws ssm get-parameters-by-path --path "$path" --query NextToken --output text --max-items 10 | grep -v None)
if [ -z "$next_token" ]; then
starting_token=""
break
else
starting_token="--starting-token $next_token"
fi
done

Answer 2

You can combine get-parameters-by-path with delete-parameters:
aws ssm delete-parameters --names `aws ssm get-parameters-by-path --path / --query Parameters[].Name --output text`
I tested it by creating two parameters, then running the above command. It successfully deleted by parameters.

Answer 3

try this and execute multiple times
aws ssm delete-parameters --names `aws ssm get-parameters-by-path --path / --recursive --query Parameters[].Name --output text --max-items 9`

Answer 4

Adding to the above. I had to delete around 400 params from the parameter store. Ran the below in command line and it did it! (Change 45 in for loop to whatever number you like);
for ((n=0;n<**45**;n++)); do
aws ssm delete-parameters --names `aws ssm get-parameters-by-path --path / --recursive --query Parameters[].Name --output text --max-items 9`
done

Answer 5

This is my one line solution for this:
$ for key in $(aws ssm get-parameters-by-path --path "/" --recursive | jq -r '.Parameters[] | .Name' | tr '\r\n' ' '); do aws ssm delete-parameter --name ${key}; done
NOTE: Be careful if you copy & paste this as it will remove everything under "/"