Fixing "externally-managed-environment" when Installing AWS CLI with pip

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If you're trying to install the AWS CLI using pip on a modern system, you might run into the following error:

$ pip install --no-cache-dir awscli
error: externally-managed-environment

× This environment is externally managed
(...)

17/02/2025

IAM Privileges: How to check what privileges are being used

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When we are working with IAM roles, it's essential to make sure that the permissions we are granting exactly what we need: No more, no less.

The AWS SDK provides a way to check what privileges are being used by a role, group, or user. This can help us to fine-tune the permissions we are granting and remove any unnecessary privileges.

07/10/2024

AWS cli: How to add/update settings in the AWS Parameter Store

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AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Parameter Store is a service that helps you centralize and manage these configurations, secrets, and parameters without hardcoding sensitive information in your application code.

18/09/2024

AWS CLI: Configuring authentication and profiles

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With the .aws/config and .aws/credentials files we can are used for configuring and authenticating for the AWS cli or any tool that uses the AWS SDK with AWS.

Each file has a different purpose:

• ~/.aws/config: This file stores configuration settings for AWS CLI and SDKs, including profiles, regions, output format, and roles to assume.
• ~/.aws/credentials: This file holds AWS access key IDs and secret access keys.

04/09/2024

AWS CLI in alpine

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The AWS CLI is a command line interface for interacting with AWS services. To install it in an Alpine-based container we can use pip instead of going thru all the trouble of downloading a zip and install it by running some script.

09/02/2023