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Adding a Batch Job Configuration SSM Parameter For The 2SL Job Execution Framework

Teri Radichel
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13 min readJan 25, 2024

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⚙️ Part of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. The Code.

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In the last post, I created a new batch job type for my job execution framework by adding a new repository, Dockerfile, and execution.sh file.

In this post I want to define an SSM Parameter with configuration for my batch job so I can use the value in that parameter for CloudFormation template parameters and job execution environment arguments.

TLDR; 
Add a job configuration parameter SSM that looks like this:

Name:
/job/awsenvinit/root-admin/organizations-organizationalunit-dev

Value:
env=dev…

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Teri Radichel
Teri Radichel

Written by Teri Radichel

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