[Feature Request] Add --profile flag back.

I have credentials and config for various profiles stored in ~/.aws, but I intentionally do not use a default profile. Instead, I prefer to pass a specific profile name to the AWS CLI using the --profile argument. This has worked very well for all AWS tools I’ve used so far.

The README states that using shared credentials or config files should be possible, and everything does indeed work if I set the AWS_PROFILE environment variable to the profile name I want to use.

However, is there an option to pass a profile name to taskcat instead of using an environment variable? This article shows how to do just that using the -P argument, but that no longer seems to be supported.

Could anyone please point me in the right direction?

[andrew-glenn]

@LackoDan

We’ll consider this a feature request to re-add the profile flag. We made an intentional design decision to not mess with credentials on the command line, but I think the profile is an exception.

The project config (.taskcat.yml) and global config (~/.taskcat.yml) files support an ‘auth’ directive. Here’s an example of using a specific profile globally and specific to the project.

Project Config

project:
  owner: [e-mail]
  name: complex-auth-config-file
  regions:
    - ap-northeast-1
    - ap-northeast-2
    - ap-south-1
    - ap-southeast-1
    - ap-southeast-2
    - eu-central-1
    - eu-west-1
    - eu-west-2
    - us-east-1
    - us-east-2
    - us-west-2
    - sa-east-1
    - me-south-1
    - ap-east-1
  parameters: {
    "AvailabilityZones": "$[taskcat_genaz_3]",
    "ByteValue": 1,
    "GlobalOverrideTest": "override",
    "LicenseContentTest": "$[taskcat_getlicensecontent]/aws-quickstart-datasets/taskcat-license-param-test/example.txt",
    "LocalOverrideTest": "override",
    "PasswordA": "$[taskcat_genpass_8A]",
    "PasswordAConfirm": "$[taskcat_getval_PasswordA]",
    "PasswordB": "$[taskcat_genpass_32S]",
    "RandomNumber": "$[taskcat_random-numbers]",
    "RandomString": "$[taskcat_random-string]",
    "UUID": "$[taskcat_genuuid]"
  }
  auth:
    default: profile-used-for-every-test-in-this-project
    ap-east-1: hongkong
tests:
  json-test:
    template: templates/debug.template
    auth:
      default: special-use-case-profile-name-for-this-test
    parameters:
      StackName: TestStack

Global config

general:
  auth:
    default: profile-for-everything

I also threw in an example around region-specific credentials. The auth section accepts either default or <region_name>.

Until we can add in the profile flag, does this get you in the right direction?

[andrew-glenn]

This feature will be included in the 0.9.18 release of taskcat. In the interim, a development release is available.

pip install taskcat==0.9.18.dev7