Day 10: Setup AWS Credentials

December 10, 2019

aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials provides an interface to setup AWS credentials for usage in GitHub Actions.

Example Usage

As a base, if you have an IAM user credentials, you can save them into GitHub Action’s secrets in the settings tab and then add the action as follows:

- name: Configure AWS Credentials
  uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v1
  with:
    aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
    aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
    aws-region: us-east-2

The access-key-id, aws-secret-access-key, and aws-reigon are the three required parameters.

Now if you use the aws cli or any client library of the aws-sdk tools, your setup will be properly authenticated using the provided user.