aws-vault VS awsume

Undying fondness for aws-vault to securely cache my session credentials.

you might want to check https://github.com/99designs/keyring and https://github.com/99designs/aws-vault

You install aws-vault (https://github.com/99designs/aws-vault), configure it according to the README and make sure you have an SSO entry that is compatible, i.e.:

I use a aws-vault to switch thought all profiles on all aws account. It support SSO with 2FA.

Nice! Do I understand this correctly?

You use aws-vault(https://github.com/99designs/aws-vault) and configure it with IAM and MFA with YubiKeys. You configure e.g. the profile jonsmith.

When you run

aws-vault exec jonsmith -- aws s3 ls

it will ask you, e.g. every hour to confirm with YubiKeys and cache the key for one hour. After that the temporary keys expire. Can you also store keys different from AWS?

Don't know about kube, but awscli and a few others decouple the idea of getting credentials and doing the actions. You can use the password every time, but a better way is to either use the preconfigured profile or some wrapper which does use the keychain. For example https://github.com/99designs/aws-vault/ supports one-off commands and shell sessions with pre-populated tokens.

It sounds like you have AWS SSO enabled and need a way to run scripts manually in the terminal. Take a look at the aws-vault project that makes it easy working with multiple AWS accounts.

A tool called aws-vault can fix the "insecure" part.

Take a look at aws-vault, which has support for SSO and running in a docker container.

I read the docs on: https://github.com/99designs/aws-vault

I have used awsume a long time. Then I got a new Macbook and lost 1/2 hour installing different python versions. So I programmed switchaws in go to get a single executable. And, yes: I declare guilty of the "not invented here" syndrom :) .

Bonus comment: After setting up your aws credentials, have a look at awsume, which makes rapid switches between accounts and roles a lot easier.. :)

Has anyone on AWS gotten k9s to work with Awsume [0] authentication?

[0] https://awsu.me/

Learn how to WORK with AWS well, for instance set up Awsume (https://awsu.me/, install the Switch Roles extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aws-extend-switch-roles/jpmkfafbacpgapdghgdpembnojdlgkdl). Try to make working with it as painless as possible. I went through a long phase of bitching and hating AWS but I've recently just given in.

Haven’t tried Leapp, not sure how I’d feel about needing to swap to a UI every time. I’m a huge fan of Awsume

💡 When working with different accounts and/or roles and enabled MFA, it's recommendable to get some tooling support. I love working with AWSume in this case. It's easy to set up and really intuitive to work with.

Together with awsume and cdkstat I can have a terminal dashboard if a want to monitor the deployment on multiple accounts: