Automate Your DevOps Grunt Work with 1000+ Bash Scripts

Ever feel like you're writing the same small Bash script for the tenth time? Or maybe you're knee-deep in a DevOps task and think, "Someone must have solved this before." You're right. Someone has, and they've bundled up over a thousand of those solutions into one massive, open-source toolkit.

Enter the DevOps Bash Tools repository. This isn't just a few handy aliases; it's a comprehensive, production-tested collection of scripts designed to automate the repetitive parts of infrastructure, cloud, and platform engineering. If a common DevOps task exists, there's a good chance there's a script here to handle it.

What It Does

In short, this GitHub repo is a massive toolbox. It contains over 1000 standalone Bash scripts that cover a huge range of DevOps and sysadmin tasks. We're talking about utilities for major platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Hadoop, and dozens of databases and technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, you name it).

The scripts are designed to do one thing well. Need to find all unattached AWS EBS volumes? There's a script for that. Want to quickly spin up a local Kubernetes cluster for testing? There's a script for that. Need to perform a health check on a bunch of different services? You get the idea.

Why It's Cool

The sheer scale is impressive, but the real value is in the consistency and practicality. This isn't a monolithic framework you have to learn. Each script is self-contained, documented, and follows consistent conventions for flags and output. You can grab a single file, understand it, and use it immediately without installing a heavy runtime.

It turns complex API calls (like those for AWS or Kubernetes) into simple command-line operations. This is perfect for automating workflows in CI/CD pipelines, for quick interactive troubleshooting, or for building more complex automation on top of these reliable building blocks. It's like having a senior DevOps engineer's notebook of useful commands, but all of them are executable and ready to go.

How to Try It

The beauty is in its simplicity. You don't "install" it in the traditional sense. You clone it and start using the scripts.

git clone https://github.com/HariSekhon/DevOps-Bash-tools
cd DevOps-Bash-tools

# Take a look at the scripts for your platform of choice
ls aws/ kubernetes/ docker/

# Run one directly. For example, check your AWS IAM account summary:
./aws/aws_iam_account_summary.sh

Make sure you have the necessary CLI tools (like aws, kubectl, etc.) installed and configured for the scripts that need them. The repository README has excellent setup instructions and prerequisites.

Final Thoughts

This repository is a goldmine for anyone who lives in the terminal. Instead of scouring Stack Overflow for the correct awk syntax or the right jq filter for the tenth time, you can often find a robust, tested script here. It won't replace understanding the underlying systems, but it will save you hours of boilerplate scripting and let you focus on the actual logic of your workflows. It's a practical, no-nonsense resource that deserves a bookmark.

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