rarylson/aws-cudos-framework-deployment

Command Line Interface tool for Cloud Intelligence Dashboards deployment

Cloud Intelligence Dashboards (CUDOS Framework)

Welcome to Cloud Intelligence Dashboards (CUDOS Framework) automation repository

This repository contains CloudFormation templates and Command Line tool (cid-cmd) for managing various dashboards provided in AWS Well Architected LAB Cloud Intelligence Dashboards.

There are several ways we can manage dashboards:

1. CloudFormation Template (using cid-cmd tool in lambda)
2. Using cid-cmd tool from command line

We recommend cid-cmd tool via AWS CloudShell.

Supported dashboards

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Dashboard documentation	Demo URL	Prerequisites URL
CUDOS Dashboard	demo	link
Cost Intelligence Dashboard	demo	link
Trusted Advisor Organisation (TAO) Dashboard	demo	link
Trends Dashboard	demo	link
KPI Dashboard	demo	link
Compute Optimizer Dashboard	demo	link

Before you start

1. ❗ Complete the prerequisites for respective dashboard (see above).
2. ❗ Specifying a Query Result Location Using a Workgroup
3. ❗ Make sure QuickSight Enterprise edition is activated.

How to use for Dasbhoard Deployment

1. Launch AWS CloudShell or your local shell

   Automation requires Python 3

2. Make sure you have latest pip package installed

   python3 -m ensurepip --upgrade

3. Install CID Python automation PyPI package

   pip3 install --upgrade cid-cmd

4. Deploy the Dashboards

   cid-cmd deploy

Demo

Other Commands

Update existing Dashboards

Update only Dashboard

cid-cmd update

Update dashboard and all dependenies (Datasets and Athena View). WARNING: this will overide any customization of SQL files and Datasets.

cid-cmd update --force --recursive

Show Dashboard status

Show dashboards status

cid-cmd status

Share QuickSight resources

cid-cmd share

Delete Dashboard and all dependencies unused by other

Delete Dashboards and all dependencies unused by other CID-managed dashboards.(including QuickSight datasets, Athena views and tables)

cid-cmd delete

Delete Command Options:

 --dashboard-id TEXT QuickSight dashboard id 
 --athena-database TEXT Athena database

Export

The command export lets you download or share a customized dashboard with another AWS Account. It takes the QuickSight Analysis as an input and generates all the assets needed to deploy your Analysis into another AWS Account. This command will generate a yaml file with a description of the Dashboard and all required Datasets. Also this command generates a QuickSight Template in the current AWS Account that can be used for Dashboard deployment in other accounts. The resource file can be used with all other cid commands. Both accounts must have relevant Athena Views and Tables.

Export from account A:

cid-cmd export

Deployment to account B:

cid-cmd deploy --resources ./mydashboard.yaml

See available commands and command line options

cid-cmd --help

Troubleshooting

If you experience unexpected behaviour of the cid-cmd script please run cid-cmd in debug mode

cid-cmd -vv [command]

This will produce a log file in the same directory that were at the tile of launch of cid-cmd.

❗Inspect the produced debug log for any sensitive information and anonymise it.

We encourage you to open new issue with description of the problem and attached debug log file.