Which is the best way to pass AWS credentials to Docker container?

Question

I am running docker-container on Amazon EC2. Currently I have added AWS Credentials to Dockerfile. Could you please let me know the best way to do this?

Answer 1

You could create ~/aws_env_creds containing:

touch ~/aws_env_creds
chmod 777 ~/aws_env_creds
vi ~/aws_env_creds

Add these value (replace the key of yours):

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AK_FAKE_KEY_88RD3PNY
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=BividQsWW_FAKE_KEY_MuB5VAAsQNJtSxQQyDY2C

Press "esc" to save the file.

Run and test the container:

 my_service:
      build: .
      image: my_image
      env_file:
        - ~/aws_env_creds