Recently I started exploring Amazon Web Services. So to begin with something on cloud development. I am posting a few steps I did for setting up Amazon Command Line Interface (AWS CLI). Is a unified tool for managing different AWS Services. With one tool we can control and manage services given by amazon. To explore more on controlling services through CLI, you can refer to you can refer to the documentation. In this article I'm gonna describe you the steps I've done to configure AWS CLI.
To install, we need to have 'pip' a package manager for python. Installation Requirement For we need to have the following:. Python 2 version 2.6.5+ or Python 3 version 3.3+. Windows, Linux, MAC or Unix. In my case I'm only configuring for MAC PC. Installing pip Download get-pip.py from this location. Once you download get-pip.py, you need to run the script with following command.
Python get-pip.py. You may need root privilege since it is copying some files outside user's home directory. Installing CLI once installed pip, you can directly run the following command $ pip install -upgrade -user awscli Here -upgrade tells pip to upgrade any features that are already installed.user option tells pip to install the program to a subdirectory of user directory to avoid modifying OS based libraries.
Instead of the above, you can use brew installer as well.
Nov 6, 2017 - The AWS CLI can be installed on Linux, Windows, or Mac Operating. -y python3-pip sudo pip3 install --upgrade pip sudo pip3 install awscli.