TF: Error: failed to refresh cached credentials, no EC2 IMDS role found, operation error ec2imds: Ge

[julianwieg]

• ubuntu 18 lts
• AWS
• TF 5.15.1

I am at a loss... any help appreciated

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│ Error: error configuring Terraform AWS Provider: no valid credential sources for Terraform AWS Provider found.
│ 
│ Please see https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws
│ for more information about providing credentials.
│ 
│ Error: failed to refresh cached credentials, no EC2 IMDS role found, operation error ec2imds: GetMetadata, http response error StatusCode: 404, request to EC2 IMDS failed
│ 
│ 
│   with provider["registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/aws"],
│   on main.tf line 2, in provider "aws":
│    2: provider "aws" {
│ 
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julian@devbox:~/detectionlab/DetectionLab/AWS/Terraform$ aws ec2 describe-instances --profile terraform --region us-west-1
julian@devbox:~/detectionlab/DetectionLab/AWS/Terraform$ cat variables.tf | grep cred
variable "shared_credentials_file" {
  description = "Path to your AWS credentials file"
  default     = "~/.aws/credentials"
julian@devbox:~/detectionlab/DetectionLab/AWS/Terraform$ ls -lah ~/.aws/credentials
-rw------- 1 julian julian 234 May 27 12:54 /home/julian/.aws/credentials
julian@devbox:~/detectionlab/DetectionLab/AWS/Terraform$ ls -lah ~/.aws/config 
-rw------- 1 julian julian 102 May 27 14:51 /home/julian/.aws/config
julian@devbox:~/detectionlab/DetectionLab/AWS/Terraform$ terraform version
Terraform v1.2.1
on linux_amd64
+ provider registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/aws v4.15.1

[julianwieg]

fixed by putting path directly into main.tf not using variables.