How to simply provide AWS key and secret ?

[davidt-gh]

I want to use this exporter, but not sure how to use exporter-toolkit
Why not use simple aws keys? is this not possible?

[nielznl]

The exporter can be configured with AWS keys as shown in specifying credentials, the following piece of code loads the credentials:

// Initialize a session that the SDK uses to load
// credentials from the shared credentials file ~/.aws/credentials
// and configuration from the shared configuration file ~/.aws/config.
sess := session.Must(session.NewSessionWithOptions(session.Options{
	SharedConfigState: session.SharedConfigEnable,
}))

The exporter-toolkit only needs to be configured if for example TLS or authentication is required.

Let me know if you get it working or run into something else.

[davidt-gh]

Nice, it working.
What if I want to run this as a pod on EKS cluster and use IAM Role? It will create me an access token, but is this code will work to use it?
I've created docker to support it: https://github.com/davidt-gh/ses_exporter

[nielznl]

specifying credentials

Does mention IAM role for Amazon EC2, so I believe it should work.

[davidt-gh]

I think better to use this:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/pod-configuration.html

The pod does not have ~/.aws: