Include SessionManagerPlugin in Docker image

[utterlyforked]

The provided Amazon/aws-cli docker image is a great solution for deploying the AWS-CLI easily. I don't need to install the CLI or dependencies on my local machine. It does not however support the use of AWS SSM because the SessionManagerPlugin is not installed in the image.

Please include the AWS SSM Plugin in the image.

[kdaily]

Thanks for the feature request, @utterlyforked!

[aries1980]

How can we help to get the one-liner change into the image? My Dockerfile just because of this optional-but-actually-mandatory plugin:

FROM amazon/aws-cli

RUN curl "https://s3.amazonaws.com/session-manager-downloads/plugin/latest/linux_64bit/session-manager-plugin.rpm" -o "session-manager-plugin.rpm" && \
    yum install -y ./session-manager-plugin.rpm

[andymac4182]

This would be amazing if it could get fixed up. This removes the docker image as an option for us :(

[horttanainen]

Dear AWS have you given up on this project?

[aries1980]

If someone could explain us why this is a hard thing to add give the solution above, that would hush away the thoughts on this project has a bad governance.

[alimeerutech]

+1

[dieterrosch]

How can this one line change be open for 2 years already?

[realsby]

+1

[kevkearney]

+1

[alexinfoblox]

+100500

[mshytikov]

+1

[NikDevPHP]

+1

[tim-finnigan]

Hi all, thanks for your patience. This feature request just came up in discussions with the team. The consensus was that this is a reasonable request, but there are still some tradeoffs to consider here. There is some concern about bloating the latest image by including the plugin when only a subset of CLI users may need this. Further investigation and discussion is needed but in the meantime we still want to continue tracking the issue here. Please :+1: the issue if you are also interested in seeing this.

[lorengordon]

Maybe tag the image separately, similar to how many projects publish images with tag modifiers like "full" "slim" "buster" "debian" etc...

[tim-finnigan]

Thanks @lorengordon for the suggestion, that is a path forward that the team is considering here.

[Disruption]

In case it's useful for anyone, we were using this in github actions, so I created a very small repository to customize the action. Since it's public, feel free to use it if anyone is on the same situation, like:

name: Whatever task you want to perform requiring the session manager plugin
uses: KadooRegalos/AwsCliSMP@master
env:
  AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
  AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
with:
  args: your aws cli command, like ecs execute-command to perform database migrations on a running task

So basically, the only change is on the "uses" line, where instead of the official aws cli docker image, we have our repo action "KadooRegalos/AwsCliSMP@master"

[smeyfroi]

@tim-finnigan is there any news on this issue? The container offered here is almost useful, but ultimately not universally useful without the missing SSM tools.

[timnolte]

Creating an image with the SM plugin and having it tagged as much, keeping the version without that tag lighter sure seems like the way to do it. I hope we see this as it's causing an ECS implementation hurdle for our company.

[tim-finnigan]

I brought this issue up again for discussion with the team, and there are still concerns about the image becoming bloated. For those who require the plugin it is a straightforward workaround to pull it into your image. For reference here is documentation on installing the session manager plugin: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/session-manager-working-with-install-plugin.html

[sn0wcat]

So the cli has support for all kinds of obscure aws services but the one actually useful command is not included because of ‘bloating’ 🙄

[ScubaDrew]

I brought this issue up again for discussion with the team, and there are still concerns about the image becoming bloated. For those who require the plugin it is a straightforward workaround to pull it into your image. For reference here is documentation on installing the session manager plugin: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/session-manager-working-with-install-plugin.html

Unless I missed it, this does not include instructions for the docker container in question.

[imtiazwazir]

+1