Hands-On: Moving Configuration Parameters to the SSM Parameter Store

Let’s move the configuration parameters from the EC2 user data into the SSM parameter store.

We learned the commands to do so already in the last lesson:

• ssm put-parameter to create a new parameter
• ssm get-parameter to read a SSM parameter

Now it’s your turn!

Extracting database credentials

The script below extracts the EC2 user data from the latest version of our launch template and stores the following configuration values in variables:

• DB_HOST: The hostname of our RDS database
• DB_PASSWORD: The password for our RDS database
• DB_NAME: The database name within RDS database
• DB_USER: The username to

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