AWS credentials during Docker build process

Question

As part of the process to build my docker container I need to pull some files from an s3 bucket but I keep getting fatal error: Unable to locate credentials even though for now I am setting the credentials as ENV vars (though would like to know of a better way to do this)

So when building the container I run

docker build -t my-container --build-arg AWS_DEFAULT_REGION="region" --build-arg AWS_ACCESS_KEY="key" --build-arg AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="key" . --squash

And in my Dockerfile I have

ARG AWS_DEFAULT_REGION
ENV AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=$AWS_DEFAULT_REGION

ARG AWS_ACCESS_KEY
ENV AWS_ACCESS_KEY=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY

ARG AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
ENV AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

RUN /bin/bash -l -c "aws s3 cp s3://path/to/folder/ /my/folder --recursive"

Does anyone know how I can solve this (I know there is an option to add a config file but that just seems an unnecessary extra step as I should be able to read from ENV).

In addition to environment variable name mentioned in an answer below, you also don't need `ENV` here as you seem to be only needing it in build step. `ARG` will be enough in this case and variable will not persist in the image. — tayfun, Jul 21 '17 at 09:20

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 21 '17 at 09:17

The name of the environment variable is AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID vs AWS_ACCESS_KEY

You can review the full list from amazon doc

The following variables are supported by the AWS CLI

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID – AWS access key.

AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY – AWS secret key. Access and secret key variables override credentials stored in credential and config files.

AWS_SESSION_TOKEN – session token. A session token is only required if you are using temporary security credentials.

AWS_DEFAULT_REGION – AWS region. This variable overrides the default region of the in-use profile, if set.

AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE – name of the CLI profile to use. This can be the name of a profile stored in a credential or config file, or default to use the default profile.

AWS_CONFIG_FILE – path to a CLI config file.

AWS credentials during Docker build process

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