sameersbn / sameersbn/docker-gitlab

Don't fail if AWS credentials are not provided

Open
#407 5 comments 1 reaction 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

wontfix
Dominant language
Shell
Stars
8.1k
Forks
2.1k
Avg merge
17h 47m
Merged PRs (30d)
7

Description

Fog support IAM instance profiles, which provides credentials automatically to the host through the AWS metadata service which are rotated every few minutes. This removes the need to control access via managed credentials and instead rely on the properties of the environment, which improves the security as any individual credential that was obtained would be made inactive within the next few minutes. Can we remove the check for the credentials if they aren't provided and allow fog to use the environment?

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

No file or test is named in the issue. Start by tracing where Fog requires AWS credentials and how environment-provided credentials are handled; done means startup succeeds without explicit credentials while AWS instance-profile credentials remain usable, with coverage for both cases.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
aws
Domain
cloud
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.