Pass AWS_PROFILE to extension

I run Terraform: apply from vscode and got this error

Initialization failed: exit status 1 Error: error configuring S3 Backend: no valid credential sources for S3 Backend found. Please see https://www.terraform.io/docs/language/settings/backends/s3.html for more information about providing credentials. Error: NoCredentialProviders: no valid providers in chain. Deprecated. For verbose messaging see aws.Config.CredentialsChainVerboseErrors

How can I pass env AWS_PROFILE into Terraform extension?

[jpogran]

Hello everyone,

The AWS Terraform provider has a section in the documentation on how to provide credentials and other sensitive information to Terraform when it runs. You’ll have to check which method you’re using in order to use it with VS Code.

For example, if you’re using an Environment variable, you’ll have to start VS Code from within a terminal that has that environment variable already populated. VS Code will then inherit all the environment variables of the parent process and any processes VS Code states (in this the case Terraform binary) will also have those environment variables. For example:

$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="anaccesskey"
$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="asecretkey"
$ export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION="us-west-2"
$ code . 

We see a common issue where people start VS Code from the dock in macOS or from the Start menu in Windows and it does not have the same set of environment variables as launching from the command line, so be sure that the place you’re starting from has the data you need to execute Terraform.

If you have any further questions about usage, please reach out on our Discuss board and ask over there. I’m going to close this out for now, but please let us know if things do not work.

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