awscredget is a minimal tool to acquire AWS session/role credentials. It is
useful for acquiring temporary AWS credentials to pass to short-lived containers
and similar isolated environments, particularly in cases where installing the
full awscli package on the host system is problematic.
The tool may be built for the current system with either make or go build.
To build for multiple architectures, make all may be used; set ARCHS in the
Makefile to add new targets.
Run the tool with the -h flag to see all options. Typical usage from a shell
script:
eval $(awscredget)
The -r flag may be used to acquire credentials for the given role ARN instead
of session credentials.
Input credentials are fetched using AWS SDK's default mechanisms.