Injecting contextual entity variables into task configurations

In addition to the substitution of regular Bamboo variables, some tasks also support the substitution of contextual entities via variables to ease composing unique names when operating multiple AWS resources at once, for example creating EBS snapshots from a set of EBS volumes, or EC2 images from a set of EC2 instances.

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Injecting task configuration via Bamboo variables

Entity variable contexts

Contextual entity variables are currently substituted in the following task configuration text fields:

Task	Action	Fields

Task

Action

Fields

EC2 Image task

Create Image(s)

Image Name

Description

Tags

EBS Snapshot task

Create Snapshot(s)

Description

Tags

Available entity variables

The following contextual entity variables are currently supported:

Namespace	Variable Name	Action Context(s)	Example

Namespace	Variable Name	Action Context(s)	Example
AWS	`${utoolity.aws.instanceId}`	Create Image(s)	`i-1a2b3c4d`
	`${utoolity.aws.volumeId}`	Create Snapshot(s)	`vol-1a2b3c4d`
ISO 8601	`${utoolity.iso8601.basicDate}`	all referenced above	`20160412`
	`${utoolity.iso8601.basicDateTime}`	./.	`20160412T231840Z`
	`${utoolity.iso8601.basicDateTimeMilliseconds}`	./.	`20160412T231840.876Z`
	`${utoolity.iso8601.basicTime}`	./.	`231840Z`
	`${utoolity.iso8601.basicTimeMilliseconds}`	./.	`231840.876Z`
	`${utoolity.iso8601.extendedDate}`	./.	`2016-04-12`
	`${utoolity.iso8601.extendedDateTime}`	./.	`2016-04-12T23:18:40Z`
	`${utoolity.iso8601.extendedDateTimeMilliseconds}`	./.	`2016-04-12T23:18:40.876Z`
	`${utoolity.iso8601.extendedTime}`	./.	`23:18:40Z`
	`${utoolity.iso8601.extendedTimeMilliseconds}`	./.	`23:18:40.876Z`