http://imil.net/blog/tags/xml/ Recent content in XML on iMil.net Hugo en-us Sat, 06 Jun 2015 11:19:42 +0000 http://imil.net/blog/posts/2015/ec2-vpn-connection-informations/ Sat, 06 Jun 2015 11:19:42 +0000 http://imil.net/blog/posts/2015/ec2-vpn-connection-informations/ <p>For a mysterious reason, <em>EC2 VPN</em> connection informations are stored in <em>XML</em> within the <em>JSON</em> data retrieved by either <a href="https://github.com/boto/boto3">boto</a> or the <a href="https://github.com/aws/aws-cli">awscli</a> command line tool.</p> <p>Here&rsquo;s a quick <em>python</em> snippet to convert those datas in a convenient, easily parsable <code>dict</code>:</p> <!-- raw HTML omitted --> <!-- raw HTML omitted --> <p>Combining this piece of code with <a href="http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/">jinja2</a> could help you generate <a href="http://ipsec-tools.sourceforge.net/">racoon</a> (or whatever <em>IPSec</em> software you use) on the fly.</p> <p><strong>Update</strong></p> <p><a href="https://gist.github.com/iMilnb/ba7b46dfc854544bf3c8">here</a>&rsquo;s a complete example of an automatic generation for <a href="http://ipsec-tools.sourceforge.net/">racoon / ipsec</a> configuration files using the previous snippet, along with <a href="http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/">jinja2</a>.</p>