This tool will request and set temporary credentials in your shell environment variables for a given role.

Installation

On OS X, the best way to get it is to use homebrew:

brew install danielthank/tap/assume-role

If you have a working Go environment:

$ go get -u github.com/danielthank/assume-role

On Windows with PowerShell, you can use scoop.sh

$ scoop bucket add extras
$ scoop install assume-role

Configuration

Setup a profile for each role you would like to assume in ~/.aws/config.

For example:

~/.aws/config:

[profile chin.yenru]
region = ap-northeast-1
output = json

[profile stage]
# Stage AWS Account.
region = ap-northeast-1
role_arn = arn:aws:iam::1234:role/DeveloperAdministrator
mfa_serial = arn:aws:iam::9012:mfa/chin.yenru
source_profile = chin.yenru

[profile prod]
# Production AWS Account.
region = ap-northeast-1
role_arn = arn:aws:iam::5678:role/DeveloperAdministrator
mfa_serial = arn:aws:iam::9012:mfa/chin.yenru
source_profile = chin.yenru

~/.aws/credentials:

[chin.yenru]
aws_access_key_id = AKIMYFAKEEXAMPLE
aws_secret_access_key = wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/MYxFAKEYEXAMPLEKEY

Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-roles.html

In this example, we have three AWS Account profiles:

• chin.yenru
• stage
• prod

Each member of the org has their own IAM user and access/secret key for the chin.yenru AWS Account. The keys are stored in the ~/.aws/credentials file.

The stage and prod AWS Accounts have an IAM role named DeveloperAdministrator. The assume-role tool helps a user authenticate (using their keys) and then assume the privilege of the DeveloperAdministrator role, even across AWS accounts!

Usage

assume-role will output the temporary security credentials:

$ assume-role -r stage
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="ASIAI....UOCA"
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="DuH...G1d"
export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN="AQ...1BQ=="
export AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN="AQ...1BQ=="
export ASSUMED_ROLE="prod"
# Run this to configure your shell:
# eval $(assume-role prod)

If the role requires MFA, you will be asked for the token first:

$ assume-role -r stage
MFA code: 123456

Or windows PowerShell:

$env:AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="ASIAI....UOCA"
$env:AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="DuH...G1d"
$env:AWS_SESSION_TOKEN="AQ...1BQ=="
$env:AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN="AQ...1BQ=="
$env:ASSUMED_ROLE="prod"
# Run this to configure your shell:
# assume-role.exe prod | Invoke-Expression

If you use eval $(assume-role) frequently, you may want to create a alias for it:

• zsh

alias assume-role='function(){eval $(command assume-role $@);}'

• bash

function assume-role { eval $( $(which assume-role) $@); }

Check assume-role -h for other usage

Usage:
  assume-role [flags]

Flags:
  -d, --duration duration   The duration that the credentials will be valid for (default 1h0m0s)
  -h, --help                help for assume-role
  -o, --output string       Output format (default "bash")
  -r, --role string         Role to be switched to