Automating Software installation in Amazon Windows Instance - amazon-web-services

I would like to use Amazon Windows Instance to test the compatibility of the code which is developed on Mac. I may use the instance once a month for few hours for testing purposes that's it. I don't want my instance running the whole month and costing me.
Hence I am planning to create an instance whenever I want. To test the code I have to install g++, openGL, boost libraries etc. How can do this using scripts?
I am looking for some scripts which install packages on a freshly installed Windows instance, clone the files from git, build and test the software.
For example for AWS Ubuntu instance I can do the following,
./> ssh -i KeyPairForUbuntu.pem ubuntu#instance.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com
./> sudo apt install <packages>
./> git clone pathToTheGit
./> run scons scripts to build and run the project
Is there any similar way to do this for Windows?
Please give any suggestions,
Thanks

try using https://chocolatey.org/
its a package management like apt-get for windows

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Should I move windows project folder into WSL?

I'm trying to set up a work environment on a new machine and I am a bit confused how best to procede.
I've set up a new windows machine and have WSL2 set-up; I plan on using that with VS Code for my development environment.
I have a previous django project that I want to continue working on stored in a folder in a thumb drive.
Do I move the [windows] project folder into the linux folder system and everything is magically ready to go?
Will my previous virtual environment in the existing folder still work or do I need to start a new one?
Is it better to just start a new folder via linux terminal and pull the project from github?
I haven't installed pip, python, or django on the windows OR linux side just yet either.
Any other things to look out for while setting this up would be really appreciated. I'm trying to avoid headaches later by getting it all set-up correctly now!
I would pull it from github, and make sure you have the correct settings for line endings, since they are different between windows and linux. Just let git manage these though:
https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/getting-started-with-git/configuring-git-to-handle-line-endings
Some other suggestions:
Use a version manager in linux to manage your python versions - something like pyenv or asdf. It will make life easier.
Make sure to always create a virtual environment for everything and don't pip install anything in your main python. (I use direnv for virtual env management)
The single exception to the previous suggestion is pipx, which I do install in the main python and then use to install things like cli tools, black, isort, pip-tools etc.
Configure VScode to use the pipx installed versions of black, flake8 etc. for linting purposes.
If you're using Docker, enable the WSL integration for your WSL flavour (probably Ubuntu). Note that docker desktop needs starting before your WSL session.

Node.JS native addons on LINUX [duplicate]

I'm using AWS Lambda, which involves creating an archive of my node.js script, including the node_modules folder and uploading that to their infrastructure to run.
This works fine, except when it comes to node modules with native bindings (using node-gyp). Because the binding was complied and project archived on my local computer (OS X), it is not compatible with AWS's (Amazon Linux) servers.
How can I cross-compile/install a node module (specifically, node-sqlite3) so when I upload it to another server arch it runs?
While not really a solution to your problem, a very easy workaround could be to simply compile the native addons on a Linux machine.
For your particular situation, I would use Vagrant. Vagrant can create virtual machines and configure them within seconds.
Find an OS image that resembles Amazon's Linux distro (Fedora, CentOS, others that use yum as package manager - see Wiki)
Use a simple configuration script that, when run by Vagrant on machine startup, will run npm install (optionally it might also remove the node_modules folder before to ensure a clean installation)
For extra comfort, the script can also create the zip file for deployment
Once the installation finishes, the script will shutdown the VM to avoid unnecessary consumption of system resources
Deploy!
It might require some tuning if the linked libraries are not at the same place on the target machine but generally this seems to me like the best and quickest solution.
While installing the app using Vagrant might be sufficient in some cases, I have found it necessary to build the app on Linux which is as close to Lambda's Amazon Linux AMI as possible.
You can read the original answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/34019739/303184
Steps to make it work:
Spawn new EC2 instance. Make sure it is based on exactly the same image as your AWS Lambda runtime. You can review Lambda env details here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/current-supported-versions.html. In our case, it was Amazon Linux AMI called amzn-ami-hvm-2015.03.0.x86_64-gp2.
Install nvm and use it to install the same version of Node.js as on the AWS Lambda. At the time of writing this, it was v0.10.36. You can refer to http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/current-supported-versions.html again to find out.
You will probably need to install git & g++ compiler on the EC2. You can do this running
sudo yum install git gcc-c++
Finally, clone your app to your new EC2 and install your app's dependecies:
nvm use 0.10.36
npm install --production
You can then easily download the node_modules using scp or such.
Same lines as Robert's answer, when I had to work on my MAC in a different OS I use vm ware like Oracle's free virtualizer VirtualBox to get a linux on my mac, no cost to me. Or sign up for a new AWS account, you get a micro for a year free. Use that to get your linux box, do whatever you need there.
AWS has a page describing how to deal with native NPM modules: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/nodejs-packages-in-lambda/

Can we communicate with windows instance using GCP composer?

I want to run my bat file on windows with the help of GCP Composer, but i am not sure if we can communicate with windows machine as composer is fully based on linux environment. Please help me if you have any solution.
There are a couple possible solutions described in this thread, basically:
Installing ssh into your Windows machine and then connecting to run commands remotely using the Airflow’s ssh operator.
Install a package like pywinrm, which allows you to run Windows commands on a target machine from Python code. Then, use the Python operator, within your DAG, to make the call. You may refer to the GCP documentation for steps on installing additional Python packages in Composer.

Use package manager in a Cloud Foundry instance

Can I use apt-get or other package managers in Cloud Foundry buildpacks or .profile scripts that come with apps; and if I can, how to do it? I expect to do it the same way as in a dockerfile, but it doesn't work with or without sudo in my case.
Can I use apt-get or other package managers in Cloud Foundry buildpacks or .profile scripts that come with apps; and if I can, how to do it?
No. Running apt-get or a package manager would typically require root access and you do not get root access when the build pack runs or when your application runs (this is a difference w/Docker).
That said, you can do anything that doesn't require root access, so if you found a package manager that installed in the vcap user's home directory and didn't need root then you could use that.
It depends on what you're trying to install, but in some cases you can work around this by downloading the .deb or .rpm file and manually extracting the binaries. This typically works OK for things like shared libraries. Just download the precompiled binary that matches your stack (cflinuxfs2 == Ubuntu Trusty). For other things, you can build your own binaries from source. This is what the build pack's do, see binary-builder.
Hope that helps!

Foundation 5 SCSS installation and Prepros

I installed ruby, Git and Node.js. Then instruction says "Bash", what exactly is Bash? I am using windows and I am newbie for thoese 3 apps they listed.
Is it windows default cmd.exe? ruby.exe or git?
If I manage it to work and created foundation project folder. How to make the foundation5 work with Prepros?
Bash is a Unix Shell, which basically allows you to type commands on your computer to execute tasks.
When you install Git on Windows, you also get a version of Git Bash, which you can use for Git commands.
Your best bet is to use something like Cygwin which replicates unix functionality on a Windows machine. Once you have installed Cygwin, you may need to set up your PATH environment variable so that when you execute git or ruby commands, they know where to look.
There is some help here on setting up environment variables.