A way to use the AWS CLI through docker.

If you're on e.g. CoreOS and you don't want to have to install Python or other libraries, use Docker to access S3.

Getting set up

See [http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-set-up.html](Amazon's help docs) on how to get your access key and credentials

After you have those, run this command to save your AWS creds locally (to the folder /my/current/directory/.awscreds)

docker run --rm -t -i -v $(pwd)/.awscreds:/root/.aws alexturek/aws-cli-docker configure

Enter your key ID and secret (and any other information) at the prompts. These are now saved at ./creds/

Use the AWS CLI

From the same directory:

docker run --rm -t -i -v $(pwd)/.awscreds:/root/.aws alexturek/aws-cli-docker my aws commands

If you want to be able to run this from any directory on your machine, replace $(pwd) in both commands with /some/absolute/path

Examples

See objects in an S3 bucket:

docker run --rm -t -i -v $(pwd)/.awscreds:/root/.aws alexturek/aws-cli-docker s3 ls s3://my-s3-bucket

For more use see [http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/](AWS's documentation)