Bash script to install AWS CLI tools

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I am writing a bash script that will automatically install and configure AWS CLI tools. I am able to install AWS CLI tools but unable to configure it.

My script is something like this:

#!/bin/bash


wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cli/awscli-bundle.zip
unzip awscli-bundle.zip
sudo ./awscli-bundle/install -i /usr/local/aws -b /usr/local/bin/aws
./awscli-bundle/install -b ~/bin/aws
./awscli-bundle/install -h

aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP   ## unable to provide this data
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: xbdwsdADDS/ssfsfa/afzfASADQASAd   ## unable to provide this data
Default region name [None]: us-west-2   ## unable to provide this data
Default output format [None]: json   ## unable to provide this data

I wish to do the configuration using this script too. I wish that I can provide these credentials via script so that it prevents manual entry. How can this be done?

If you're looking to run this on instances you launch, consider using IAM Roles for EC2 instead of embedding your credentials. The instance takes care of issuing temporary credentials and rotating them, you just need to specify the IAM role when you launch the instance. You will still need to install the actual tools though. — Jon McAuliffe
– Jon McAuliffe, Commented Jul 4, 2014 at 0:24

Ben Whaley · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-02 16:43:13Z

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Use a configuration file rather than the aws configure command. Create a file called ~/.aws/config that looks like this:

[default]
aws_access_key_id=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
aws_secret_access_key=wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
region=us-west-2
output=json

More info in the docs.

answered Jul 2, 2014 at 16:43

Ben Whaley

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Julio Faerman Over a year ago

Other than that, you can also set the credentials, region and output as environment variables or cli arguments. See: docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/…

Rahul Mehrotra Over a year ago

I am unable to find directory ~/.aws/

Santhosh S Over a year ago

you will need to create the directory ~/.aws and inside it the file 'config'

Daljit Sinz · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-16 19:52:37Z

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the best practice is to install the awscli utility by BASH and copy the file from your own specified location of 2 files

without hitting

#aws configure

command these files will not get created, you can copy and paste the files using bash script and get all the execution done

~/.aws/credintials
~/.aws/config

where credentials contains

[default]
aws_access_key_id=ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP
aws_secret_access_key=xbdwsdADDS/ssfsfa/afzfASADQASAd

and config file contains

[default]
output=json
region=us-west-2

This will help you to keep the keys at one place and you can also push the same for your execution for any CMT tool as well like Ansible.

answered Oct 16, 2017 at 19:52

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Thomas Fritsch · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-26 20:20:00Z

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you additionally configure this from the command line which will create the configuration file

aws configure set aws_access_key_id ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP
aws configure set aws_secret_access_key xbdwsdADDS/ssfsfa/afzfASADQASAd
aws configure set default.region eu-west-1

edited Sep 26, 2018 at 20:20

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answered Sep 26, 2018 at 18:07

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