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CDK errors with no credentials have been configured if credentials file does not exist

See original GitHub issue

when running cdk deploy, if a file does not exist at ~/.aws/credentials, cdk will exit with the message Need to perform AWS calls for account 1234, but no credentials have been configured..

There are many ways to provide aws credentials that don’t require the credentials file, so this should probably be fixed.

In the meantime, the fix is to simply create a file at the expected path (~/.aws/credentials)

Reproduction Steps

mv ~/.aws/credentials ~/.aws/credentials_backup
cdk deploy --verbose

Error Log

see above

Environment

CLI Version : 1.30.0 (build 4f54ff7)
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Created 3 years ago
Reactions:34
Comments:26 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

51reactions

omishaguptacommented, Apr 17, 2021

The file already exists for me with proper credentials, still not able to solve it. Anyone else facing the same issue?

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shivlakscommented, Aug 27, 2020

@trondhindenes @DioNNiS - have you checked out this blog post which gets into how to use the cdk-credential plugin. It’s a tool I’d recommend when working with cross-account actions.

I’ve found a fair amount of users who run into this message would have been saved a fair amount of grief if the plugin were used.

can you give it a go and let me know how it goes?