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how do you avoid 1 - it seems impossible ?
by misiti3780 11y ago
how do you avoid 1 - it seems impossible ?
- mhluongo 11y agoIAM roles let you assign temporary credentials to machines running scripts. The machine can then hit an internal AWS URL to get the temporary credentials. Many tools know to look for these credentials by default- eg boto checks for credentials in environment variables, config files, and the machines IAM role.
- idunno246 11y agoAnd there's a few tools to emulate the metadata service locally if you need it on dev laptops which makes it use a role as if a server
- rodrickbrown 11y agoTake a look at hashicorp vault - https://hashicorp.com/blog/vault.html https://hashicorp.com/blog/vault.html