Need a better understanding of installing AWS-Nuke for Mac

Question

Im sure this this just a lack of knowledge on my end but im having a hard time understand how to install aws-nuke following there documentation. I have downloaded the latest release but install instructions are not so clear for me https://github.com/rebuy-de/aws-nuke#:~:text=Use%20Released%20Binaries,Run%20%24%20aws%2Dnuke%2Dv2.16.0%2Dlinux%2Damd64

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Answer 1

On a Mac you can run aws-nuke using the following steps:

1. Open a terminal (Command + Space and write terminal)
2. Grab the latest version of the aws-nuke. Currently the latest version is 2.17.0 but obviously this will change in the future. In order to download aws-nuke, we can run the following command:

• For M1 Mac:

wget https://github.com/rebuy-de/aws-nuke/releases/download/v2.17.0/aws-nuke-v2.17.0-darwin-arm64.tar.gz

• For intel Mac:

wget https://github.com/rebuy-de/aws-nuke/releases/download/v2.17.0/aws-nuke-v2.17.0-darwin-amd64.tar.gz

3. Extract the package using the following command (note: use amd64 instead of arm64 if you are on an intel Mac):

tar -xvf aws-nuke-v2.17.0-darwin-arm64.tar.gz

4. Create a config.yml file with the following content and place it nearby the extracted executable:

regions:
- global

account-blocklist:
- "999999999999" # leave it as it is, since the current version wont work if you don't provide a blocklist

accounts:
  "000000000000": {} # fill in your own AWS account number

5. Run the following command:

./aws-nuke-v2.17.0-darwin-arm64 -c config.yml

This should list the resources which might be deleted. If you are ok with the list, append --no-dry-run to the previous command.