rolandrajko/aws-cli repository overview

⁠AWS CLI Docker image

Containerized AWS CLI on Alpine to avoid requiring the AWS CLI to be installed on developer or CI machines.
The image also provides a few other tools, including jq⁠ and ECS CLI⁠.

⁠Providing credentials

Credentials can be provided in any of the AWS CLI supported formats.

⁠Using credentials file

If you need to create the credentials file, you can use the aws configure command:

docker run --rm -it -v $HOME/.aws:/root/.aws rolandrajko/aws-cli aws configure

From that point on, simply mount the directory containing your config.

⁠Using environment variables

This is supported, although NOT encouraged, as the environment variables can end up in command line history, available for container inspection, etc.

• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID - AWS Access Key ID
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY - AWS Secret Access Key
• AWS_DEFAULT_REGION - Default region name

docker run --rm -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=my-access-key-id -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=my-secret-access-key -e AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=my-region rolandrajko/aws-cli

⁠Using the container as a CLI command

You can setup an alias for aws to simply start a container, hiding the fact that it's not actually installed on the machine.

alias aws='docker run --rm -it -v $HOME/.aws:/root/.aws -v $(pwd):/usr/src/app rolandrajko/aws-cli aws'