awstokengen

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awstokengen

CLI script to create temporary AWS credentials based on EKS IAM Roles for Service Accounts for tools which can't be easily migrated to a newer AWS SDK.

Usage

# set AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY and AWS_SESSION_TOKEN environment variable,
# based on the IAM Role referenced in the Kubernetes Service Account.
eval $(awstokengen)

./yourTool # now uses environment variables to authenticate against AWS.

Available CLI flags:

• -exitNoEks (default=false) if IAM Role for Service Accounts environment variables are not detected, exit without error
• -region (default=us-east-1) AWS Region to make requests to
• -sessionName (default=new UUID()) if set will be used as role session name. Session Arn will be in format arn:aws:sts:::assumed-role/$AWS_ROLE_ARN/