AWS CLI Docker Container

Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

• 0.1 (0.1/Dockerfile)
• 0.2 (0.2/Dockerfile)
• 1.15.47 (1.15.47/Dockerfile)
• 1.16.140 (1.16.140/Dockerfile)

AWS CLI Version

• 1.16.140

Build

docker build -t garland/aws-cli-docker:x.x .

Description

Docker container with the AWS CLI installed.

Using Alpine linux. The Docker image is 87MB

An automated build of this image is on Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/garland/aws-cli-docker/

Getting your AWS Keys:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-set-up.html#cli-signup

Passing your keys into this container via environmental variables:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html#cli-environment

Command line options for things like setting the region

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html#cli-command-line

You can run any commands available to the AWS CLI

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/index.html

Example Usage:

Describe an instance:

docker run \
--env AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<<YOUR_ACCESS_KEY>> \
--env AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<<YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS>> \
--env AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1 \
garland/aws-cli-docker \
aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids i-90949d7a

output:

{
    "Reservations": [
        {
            "OwnerId": "960288280607",
            "ReservationId": "r-1bb15137",
            "Groups": [],
            "RequesterId": "226008221399",
            "Instances": [
                {
                    "Monitoring": {
                        "State": "enabled"
                    },
                    "PublicDnsName": null,
...
...
}

Return a list of items in s3 bucket

docker run \
--env AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<<YOUR_ACCESS_KEY>> \
--env AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<<YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS>> \
garland/aws-cli-docker \
aws s3 ls

output:

2014-06-03 19:41:30 folder1
2014-06-06 23:02:29 folder2

Upload content of your current directory (say it contains two files test.txt and test2.txt) to s3 bucket

docker run \
--env AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<<YOUR_ACCESS_KEY>> \
--env AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<<YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS>> \
-v $PWD:/data \
garland/aws-cli-docker \
aws s3 sync . s3://mybucket

output:

(dryrun) upload: test.txt to s3://mybucket/test.txt
(dryrun) upload: test2.txt to s3://mybucket/test2.txt

doc: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/index.html

Retrieve a decrypted Windows password by passing in your private key

We will map the private keys that resides on your local system to inside the container

docker run \
-v <<LOCATION_TO_YOUR_PRIVATE_KEYy>>:/tmp/key.pem \
--env AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<<YOUR_ACCESS_KEY>> \
--env AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<<YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS>> \
--env AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1 \
garland/aws-cli-docker \
aws ec2 get-password-data --instance-id  <<YOUR_INSTANCE_ID>> --priv-launch-key /tmp/key.pem

Output:

{
    "InstanceId": "i-90949d7a",
    "Timestamp": "2014-12-11T01:18:27.000Z",
    "PasswordData": "8pa%o?foo"
}

doc: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/get-password-data.html

Example Usage with Docker Compose:

echo AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=ID >> .env
echo AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=KEY >> .env
docker-compose run aws s3 ls