First, we need to create an AWS account:
Sign up for your AWS account to get 100$ credits. Then create a new user in AWS, for that go to IAM:
Go to IAM > Users > Add Users.
- Enter a Username (I am using my username as ‘admin’)
- Select the Access Type :
- Programmatic Access : For API/CLI/SDK access. (here I am giving administrator access)
- Now click on ‘create user’
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Once the user is created, click on the username and create an access key, that can be configured on Terraform or AWS CLI.
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Once you click on the access key, there will 3 steps;
Step 1: Choose ‘Command line interface’
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Step 2: Give a description tag.
Step 3: Retrieve keys.
You can download the credentials as a csv file or you can keep it in a seperate file.
Now we can proceed with configuring AWS CLI in the base machine, so here I am using my personal laptop as my base machine and it is running on arch-linux.
To install AWS CLI you can run the following command in any linux machine:
curl “https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cli/awscli-bundle.zip" -o “awscli-bundle.zip”
unzip awscli-bundle.zip
sudo ./awscli-bundle/install -i /usr/local/aws -b /usr/local/bin/aws
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If it the above commands are not working , you can refer the following URL:
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If you are using arch-Linux and facing any error with installation, you can install aws-cli from the arch repository itself:
One the installation is completed, run the following command to configure aws-cli in your machine.
1. aws configure.
It will ask for a few details, and provide the details. If you don’t know the details refer to AWS documentation for the recommended one.
Once configured, simply type ‘aws cli’ to see whether the configuration is working fine or not.
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