Run the AWS CLI without needing to install any dependencies, thanks to Docker!
To install, run this one-liner on your Linux system:
sudo curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hiveco/awscli/master/aws.sh -o /usr/local/bin/aws; \
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/aws
From now on, invoking aws will run hiveco/awscli in a container, using AWS credentials from the config file in your home directory. The us-east-1 region will be auto-selected. To use a different region, set the AWS_DEFAULT_REGION environment variable using your favourite method.
Using this convenience script also automatically mounts the current directory under /here, which is useful for running commands like aws s3 cp.
Add your credentials to ~/.aws/credentials as follows:
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<key-id>
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<secret-key>
mkdir -p ~/.aws
cat << EOF > ~/.aws/credentials
[default]
aws_access_key_id=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
aws_secret_access_key=$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
EOF
You can test that your credentials work by running aws sts get-caller-identity.
Run the hiveco/awscli container directly to be able to set the AWS credentials explicitly, or to enable auto-detection of the AWS region when running on an EC2 instance.
Specify AWS credentials with environment variables:
docker run -it --rm \
-e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<key-id> \
-e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<secret-key> \
hiveco/awscli \
[tool] [commands...]
The current region will be auto-detected from EC2 metadata. If not running on EC2, the tool will default to us-east-1. To explicitly specify a region, add a -e AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=<region> argument.
Specify AWS credentials with a config file (see the link below for the required format):
docker run -it --rm \
-v <path-to-credentials-config>:/root/.aws/credentials \
hiveco/awscli \
[tool] [commands...]