A Docker image for the AWS Command Line Interface

To use the container with a project, do the following:

• Copy the bin directory into your project.

• Ensure that your profile PATH includes ./bin and that it takes priority over any other directory that may include a aws executable:

  PATH=./bin:$PATH
  

Now whenever you are in your project's directory, you can simply execute aws and the command will execute in the container instead.

It is possible to control what UID the initial process. The /usr/bin/aws file already does this for the initial process.

This is important if you are mounting a volumes into the container, as the the UID of the initial process will likely need to match the volume to be able to read and/or write to it.

Note: You should NOT try to set the UID using Dockers -u or --user option, as this does not ensure that the user actually exists (entry in /etc/passwd home directory etc).

Based on https://github.com/Chekote/docker-ubuntu