davidmoten/aws-maven-plugin

Support for server credentials in settings.xml

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#1 opened on Mar 16, 2017

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Description

The handling of credentials could be improved. Instead of directly providing the keys in the plugin configuration.

Use the DefaultAWSCredentialsProviderChain

This means that you can use the .aws/credentials shared with the aws command line tool from Amazon. Really userfriendly. Perhaps it should be explicitly turned on by referring directly to a AWS configuration profile name in a property.

Standard maven credential handling

it is possible to use the standard credential handling in Maven. For example in settings.xml you can write something like

<server>
            <id>aws.amazon.com</id>
            <username>XXXYYYACCESS_KEYKLFJKELw</username>
            <password>jkshfdakjlsdfSECRET_KEYlkdjslkfds</password>
</server>

and have a property where you can refer to the server definition id.

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Research direction
Implement support for DefaultAWSCredentialsProviderChain and Maven settings.xml server credentials. Refer to AWS SDK documentation for credential provider chain and Maven settings encryption for passwords.
Tech stack
java
Domain
backenddevops
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3
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Half day
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Clear
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MavenAWS
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60