switch-profile
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NPX script that exposes terminal shortcut to easily switch between cloud configuration (aws, gcp).
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switch-profile
Switch between AWS profiles without having to manually edit the .aws/credentials
or the environment variables.
npx switch-profile
This terminal utility helps switching between AWS CLI profiles. It sets the default
profile by editing the .aws/credentials
file. It requires AWS CLI v2
to be installed.
This utility also supports creating new AWS profiles, including SSO profiles as well as deleting them.
WARNING: Make sure that the following environment variables have been removed from your path, otherwise, they will conflict with the default AWS CLI profile:
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
AWS_SESSION_TOKEN
Table of contents
Extra features
The More options
supports the following:
Create profile
: Helps create both a standard or AWS SSO profile.Delete profiles
: Helps cleaning one or many profiles.Refresh default profile
: Helps refreshing the current default profile if it has expired (e.g., SSO profile). This option only appears when the default profile has expired.
FAQ
Why using this utility?
switch-profile
was originally created to refresh short-lived AWS SSO profiles in the terminal and set them as default. Indeed, as of 2021, the only two ways to set up a short-lived SSO profile as default in the terminal are:
- Manually paste the short-lived credentials in the terminal:
- Browse to the AWS SSO login page and login.
- Select an account.
- Reveal the short-lived credentials (i.e., AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY and AWS_SESSION_TOKEN).
- Copy paste them in the terminal or manually edit the
.aws/credentials
file.
- Create an SSO profile in the terminal and update its credentials via the CLI:
- Creating an SSO profile:
aws configure sso
- Renew a SSO credentials for a specific profile:
aws sso login --profile YOUR_PROFILE
- Creating an SSO profile:
The issue with the first method is that you have to repeat it every hour, which can make long days feel even longer. The issue with the second method is that it requires your code or third party app (e.g, Terraform) to support the --profile
option. There are scenarios where using this --profile
option is either not possible or impractical (often impractical as this may mean all engineers should agree to use the same convention for the profile's name).
switch-profile
aims to solve those issues by making setting any profile as default
trivial.
How to create a new SSO profile?
npx switch-profile
- Select
More options
, thenCreate profile
. - Answer all the questions.
Troubleshooting
invalid_grant: Invalid grant provided
If this error occurs during a profile creation step, this is most likely due to an incorrect SSO region. AWS SSO is region specific. This error occurs if an incorrect region is specified during the profile creation step.
Error: Fail to get credentials for profile ... Error loading SSO Token...
This is probably due to a recent deletion of the ~/.aws/sso/cache
folder. This folder keeps track of the SSO profiles created on the local machine. Unfortunately in this case, there is no other option but to recreate all the SSO profiles manually:
- Execute
npx switch-profile
- Select
More options
, thenDelete profiles
.
License
BSD 3-Clause License