awscred: A JavaScript repository from thorjarhun

awscred

A small standalone library to resolve AWS credentials and region details using, in order: environment variables, INI files, and EC2 metadata (for IAM roles). Queues HTTP calls to ensure no thundering herd effect will occur when credentials expire.

Example

var awscred = require('awscred')

awscred.load(function(err, data) {
  if (err) throw err

  console.log(data.credentials)
  // { accessKeyId: 'ABC',
  //   secretAccessKey: 'DEF',
  //   sessionToken: 'GHI',
  //   expiration: Sat Apr 25 2015 01:16:01 GMT+0000 (UTC) }

  console.log(data.region)
  // us-east-1
})

Or just load the region, synchronously:

console.log(awscred.loadRegionSync())
// us-east-1

API

awscred.load([options], cb)

awscred.loadCredentialsAndRegion([options], cb)

Resolves AWS credentials and region details, and calls back with an object containing credentials and region properties as highlighted in the example above.

options include:

filename: the name of the INI file to parse, defaults to '~/.aws/config'
profile: the name of the INI profile to use, defaults to 'default'
timeout: the ms timeout on the http call to the EC2 metadata service, defaults to 5000
credentialsCallChain: array of functions to resolve credentials, defaults to awscred.credentialsCallChain below
regionCallChain: array of functions to resolve region, defaults to awscred.regionCallChain below

All options are also passed to http.request, so any standard Node.js HTTP options may be used as well.

The following environment variables are checked by default:

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_KEY
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AMAZON_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY
AWS_SESSION_TOKEN, AMAZON_SESSION_TOKEN
AWS_REGION, AMAZON_REGION, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION
AWS_PROFILE, AMAZON_PROFILE

awscred.loadCredentials([options], cb)

As above, but only resolves credentials, does not look up region. Calls back with just the credentials object (containing accessKeyId, secretAccessKey, and optionally sessionToken and expiration properties).

awscred.loadRegion([options], cb)

As above, but only resolves region, does not look up credentials. Calls back with just the region string.

awscred.loadRegionSync([options])

As above, but returns the region directly from this function using synchronous calls.

awscred.credentialsCallChain

The array of credential loading functions used to determine call order. By default: [loadCredentialsFromEnv, loadCredentialsFromIniFile, loadCredentialsFromEc2Metadata]

awscred.regionCallChain

The array of region loading functions used to determine call order. By default: [loadRegionFromEnv, loadRegionFromIniFile]

awscred.loadCredentialsFromEnv

awscred.loadRegionFromEnv

awscred.loadRegionFromEnvSync

awscred.loadCredentialsFromIniFile

awscred.loadRegionFromIniFile

awscred.loadRegionFromIniFileSync

awscred.loadCredentialsFromEc2Metadata

awscred.loadProfileFromIniFile

awscred.loadProfileFromIniFileSync

Individual methods to load credentials and region from different sources

awscred.merge(obj, [options], cb)

Populates the region and credentials properties of obj using the appropriate load method – depending on whether they're already set or not.

thorjarhun/awscred