awsprof

awsprof

awsprof is a little tool to quickly switch your AWS access and secret key environment variables using profile names. Many AWS tools and APIs support the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables, but they don't support the profile system - awsprof aims to help resolve that.

Install

Download a binary from the Releases page, or if you have a valid Go installation you can install from source:

$ go get github.com/KyleBanks/awsprof/cmd/awsprof

Usage

awsprof can be run with either no arguments to view the names of all configured profiles. If one of the profiles matches the current AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables, it will be marked as the active profile with an asterisk:

$ awsprof
 * default
   devops
   production
   website

Alternatively, running awsprof with a profile name allows you to activate the pair of AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables associated with that profile. Unfortunately, due to the nature of environment variables, and the fact that a child process cannot set environment variables for the parent, awsprof can only output the export commands which you can then run:

$ awsprof website
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='EXAMPLE'
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='EXAMPLE'

You can either copy and paste the command to run it yourself, or more efficiently:

$ eval $(awsprof website)

For frequent usage, add an alias to your ~/.bash_profile:

# ~/.bash_profile

alias awsprof-website="eval \$(awsprof website)"

And run it like so:

$ awsprof-website

Author

awsprof was developed by Kyle Banks.

License

awsprof is available under the MIT license.