[cs615asa] AWS credentials

[Avineshwar Singh]

One more thing.

If a volume-id is specified, that means it is already existing in some
availability zone (with or w/o FS). Hence, the instance has to be created
in that availability zone but not every ami-id is supported in every zone.
There should be a query of volume's zone and then choose an instance to
create, in that availability zone.

And that is bad.


On 6 April 2016 at 18:52, Avineshwar Singh <asingh16 at stevens.edu> wrote:

> Why would you do anything to *~/.aws/credentials* ?
> If it has something to do with changing your region (as a pre-created
> volume's zone should match with our instance's zone; here, volume's zone is
> a constraint), probably it is achievable by suppressing the output of *aws
> configure *and changing the value of region to the region where our
> volume is present, since there should be no user interaction once the tool
> is running.
>
> However, since this script is to help the user, user has to be cooperative
> (like following specific formats of saving environment variable which we
> will consume, et cetera). This information should be reflected in our
> script's help because the user will anyway have to refer to help part when
> he will trying to use it for the first time and just for the sake of
> running this tool, there will not be a requirement to change the
> environment variables permanently rather it will be ephemeral, like: even
> if he assigns a variable to something that we want him to put for the tool
> to work, it will only be there for that particular shell window (another
> shell window will reflect his permanent value, not this one). So, we can
> use his variables by, optionally, making him choose to save those
> environment variable in a specific format. This is not the only way.
> Standardization of this tool is going to take some more effort.
>
>
> The best thing to do is make the user to cooperate with the tool, however,
> we have to keep in mind that we don't break the rules we need to follow
> while creating this tool (no user interaction, no useless outputs, no
> setting or modification of environment variables, no temporary files).
>
> On 6 April 2016 at 18:11, Roy Vaccaro Jr. <rvaccaro at stevens.edu> wrote:
>
>> In working on the HW assignment I found if you use one of the AWS SDK's
>> the location for credentials is different from the command line "aws ec2"
>>
>> For  example using boto in python the library will look for the
>> credentials in either a .boto file or ~/.aws/credentials (You can also use
>> environment variables)
>>
>> Should the tool require the user to have one of these files or the env
>> variables in place?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Roy
>>
>>
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