[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Using config/credential profiles with chef-provisioning-aws

[Mark Harrison < >]

Interesting. You're right about it being just profilename in the
credentials file vs config (today I learned...), and as far as I can
see in the code
(https://github.com/chef/chef-provisioning-aws/blob/master/lib/chef/provisioning/aws_driver/credentials.rb#L37)
it does treat them correctly.

I think the behavior you're seeing about it picking the first set of
credentials if there is no default is caused by this:
https://github.com/chef/chef-provisioning-aws/blob/master/lib/chef/provisioning/aws_driver/credentials.rb#L22
but that's still implying that it isn't picking up your profilename.

Hopefully someone smarter than me can work out why that's happening.





On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Christine Draper
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 >
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There are no stupid questions. I am a relative AWS API and chef-provisioning
> newbie, and quite willing to believe its my configuration problem!.
>
> I have [profile profilename] in .config, but I am using .credentials for the
> keys where I understand the format is just [profilename] (the aws commands
> dont work if I use [profile profilename] in .credentials).   I have verified
> that I can create a vpc using --profile with aws ec2 create_vpc (and it
> fails when I don't use --profile, as the default credentials don't have
> authority).
>
> I've also tried moving the credentials into  .config, but that doesn't help.
>
> The most alarming behaviour is if I have no default in credentials, and put
> the authorized users credentials first, that's what it uses.
>
> Regards,
> Christine
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Mark Harrison 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
>>
>> Possibly stupid question: do the profiles other than the default one
>> start with 'profile' (e.g. '[profile test1]') in the credentials file
>> (the AWS credentials file is weird in that the default profile is just
>> [default], but others are [profile profilename])? Also, do your
>> alternate profiles with with the aws command line tools and the
>> --profile option or other non-chef-provisioning tools?
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Christine Draper
>> <
 >
>>  wrote:
>> > It seems that there may be a bug in the profile support.   Whatever
>> > profile
>> > name I put in to the driver, it appears to be running with the
>> > credentials
>> > of the first profile in the file.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Christine Draper
>> > <
 >
>> >  wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hmm.. I must be doing something stupid somewhere. Doesnt work for me
>> >> with
>> >> the env variable either.
>> >>
>> >> I've tried with both the 0.1.3 version that's in ChefDK 0.3.6, and with
>> >> 0.2.1 (because I needed subnets).
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Tyler Ball 
>> >> <
 >
>> >>  wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> I am using environmental variables and when I specify
>> >>> CHEF_DRIVER=aws:test1 it uses my profile - does that work for you?  If
>> >>> so,
>> >>> I'm guessing it is a bug with `with_driver`.
>> >>>
>> >>> What version of chef-provisioning-aws are you using?  The ChefDK?
>> >>>
>> >>> -T
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> > On Jan 29, 2015, at 1:39 PM, Christine Draper
>> >>> > <
 >
>> >>> >  wrote:
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Hi,
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Is there a way to tell chef-provisioning-aws driver to use a profile
>> >>> > rather than the default from config/credentials files? I tried
>> >>> >
>> >>> > with_driver aws:test1
>> >>> >
>> >>> > where test1 is my profile, but that didn't work.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Regards,
>> >>> > Christine
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >
>
>