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joar
joar

Reputation: 493

Work with multiple profiles in provider.tf without swapping environment variables?

I use Terraform v0.13.5 to provision resources for multiple projects using multiple profiles.

I have the following declared in provider.tf:

shared_credentials_file = "~/.aws/credentials"
profile = "profile_name"

But I get the error:

Error: error configuring Terraform AWS Provider: no valid credential sources for Terraform AWS Provider found.

It works if I use shell environment variables:

export AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE=/Users/$USER/.aws/credentials
export AWS_PROFILE=profile_name

It seems that both the environment variables and the info in the provider file are required. If there's a mismatch between the two, Terraform errors out.

I can add the environment variables to .bashrc but it's a pain since I have multiple profile names for different projects.

How can I use multiple profiles and specify them only in the terraform.tf file?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 706

Answers (1)

joar
joar

Reputation: 493

Martin's comment is correct.

I needed to also add my profile name to the terraform.tf file as well as the provider.tf file.

I did following and it worked.

terraform {
  backend "s3" {
  bucket  = "my_bucketname"
  key     = "my_keyname"
  region  = "us-west-1"
  profile = "my_profile_name"
  }
}

Upvotes: 1

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