How to run aws configure in a travis deploy script?

Question

I am trying to get travis-ci to run a custom deploy script that uses awscli to push a deployment up to my staging server.

In my .travis.yml file I have this:

before_deploy:

  - 'curl "https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cli/awscli-bundle.zip" -o "awscli-bundle.zip"'

  - 'unzip awscli-bundle.zip'

  - './awscli-bundle/install -b ~/bin/aws'

  - 'export PATH=~/bin:$PATH'

  - 'aws configure'

And I have set up the following environment variables:

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID

AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

AWS_DEFAULT_REGION

with their correct values in the travis-ci web interface.

However, when the aws configure runs, it stops and waits for user input. How can I tell it to use the environment variables I have defined?

Answer 1

You can set these in a couple of ways.

First, create a file at ~/.aws/config (or ~/.aws/credentials).

For example:

[default]

aws_access_key_id=foo

aws_secret_access_key=bar

region=us-west-2

Secondly, you can add environment variables for each of your settings.

For example, create the following environment variables:

AWS_DEFAULT_REGION

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID

AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

Thirdly, you can pass the region in as a command-line argument. For example:

aws eb deploy --region us-west-2

You don't require to run AWS configure in these cases as the cli is configured.

If you want to learn more, check out this AWS Certification by Intellipaat.