What is the point of bootstrap_agent.sh

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Description of the problem / feature request:

It looks like bootstrap_agent.sh does just about nothing. What is the point of this script, and why do you have it in a s3 bucket?

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[thundergolfer]

If you look through the history of that file, you'll see it used to install some stuff that I hadn't baked into the AWS AMI, such as the Black Python source code formatter.

Recently I removed the need to install anything, and so the file became a kind of 'no op', but the Buildkite config still expects to find and run that file, so it still exists.

In future I could just remove the config that has Buildkite expecting to run that file, and then remove the file.

[smeyerhot]

Ok, fair enough. Is the ami is for the buildkite agent?

[thundergolfer]

Yes the AMI is for the Buildkite agent. It's not a nice dev-loop to have to rebuild AMIs, but not bothered to change it for now.