Use ~/.aws/credentials

[kaihendry]

Been staring at the aws-cli configure breakage and http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ECS_CLI_Configuration.html and I still can't quite figure out how to use the credentials in ~/.aws/credentials.

What am I missing?

[mattmccarty]

@kaihendry I opened a similar ticket yesterday. It has more to do with using assumed roles, but should still apply to your case. See my examples in the ticket. The issue was opened for v1.0.0 btw.

[PettitWesley]

@kaihendry Apologies lack of clarity on this in our public AWS documentation. We have added a new flag --aws-profile (Env Var: $AWS_PROFILE) that allows you to reference any profile in ~/.aws/credentials.

Let me know if you have any more questions about the configuration/credential related changes in v1.0!

[dbahlbeck]

I have some trouble using --aws-profile. The AWS profile I'm trying to use does not seem to work if it refers to credentials in a source profile:

[myprofile]
# this profile has an access key

[sandbox]
output = json
region = eu-west-1
role_arn = arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/ROLE
source_profile = myprofile

It fails with the error: credentials did not contain aws_access_key_id caused by: error when getting key of section 'sandbox': key 'aws_access_key_id' not exists"

[PettitWesley]

@dbahlbeck, strong apologies for the delay in response. This is caused by the issue discussed in #369. It's been fixed with ECS CLI v1.1.0 which was released last week :)