glenn/aws-init-container repository overview

This is intended to run in an initialization container (running to completion before the main workload container starts up), to prepare a shared volume with configuration files, certificates, etc. It pulls the specified secrets from AWS Secrets Manager, and writes them to nominated locations on the filesystem. It will auto-create any intermediate directories required.

This fills a common need when working with Amazon ECS, which is only capable of injecting runtime configuration using environment variables, not files.

For documentation, see: https://github.com/glennschmidt/aws-init-container⁠