Install/Setup AWS CLI on a GitHub Actions Linux host.

After this action, every step is capable of running aws CLI, and it's up to you to set AWS credentials in the subsequent steps.

Tested in unfor19/install-aws-cli-action-test

TIP: It's possible to use the entrypoint.sh script as a "bootstrap script to install/setup aws cli on Linux", regardless of GitHub Actions; see Other Options for more details.

Valid AWS CLI version values:

• 1 - latest v1
• 2 - latest v2 (default)
• 1.##.## - specific v1
• 2.##.## - specific v2

Add the following step to a job in your workflow

- id: install-aws-cli
  uses: unfor19/install-aws-cli-action@v1
  with:
    version: 2     # default
    verbose: false # default
    arch: amd64    # allowed values: amd64, arm64
    rootdir: ""    # defaults to "PWD"
    workdir: ""    # defaults to "PWD/unfor19-awscli"

See unfor19/install-aws-cli-action-test/blob/master/.github/workflows/test-action.yml

name: test-action

on:
  push:

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    strategy:
      matrix:
        include:
          - TEST_NAME: "Latest v2"
            AWS_CLI_VERSION: "2"
          - TEST_NAME: "Specific v2"
            AWS_CLI_VERSION: "2.0.30"
          - TEST_NAME: "Latest v1"
            AWS_CLI_VERSION: "1"
          - TEST_NAME: "Specific v1"
            AWS_CLI_VERSION: "1.18.1"
          - TEST_NAME: "No Input"
    name: Test ${{ matrix.TEST_NAME }} ${{ matrix.AWS_CLI_VERSION }}
    steps:
      - name: Test ${{ matrix.TEST_NAME }}
        id: install-aws-cli
        uses: unfor19/install-aws-cli-action@master
        with:
          version: ${{ matrix.AWS_CLI_VERSION }}
      - run: aws --version
        shell: bash

• Execute locally

  curl -L -o install-aws.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unfor19/install-aws-cli-action/master/entrypoint.sh && \
  chmod +x install-aws.sh
  ./install-aws.sh "v2" "amd64"
  rm install-aws.sh  

• Dockerfile - Add this to your Dockerfile

  # Install AWS CLI
  WORKDIR /tmp/
  RUN curl -L -o install-aws.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unfor19/install-aws-cli-action/master/entrypoint.sh && \
      sudo chmod +x install-aws.sh && \
      sudo ./install-aws.sh "v2" "amd64" && \
      sudo rm install-aws.sh

  NOTE: On some Docker images, you might need to add sudo in front of each command, like sudo curl -L .., sudo chmod .., etc.

Created and maintained by Meir Gabay

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details