Chef aws credential provisioning question

Question

Question about chef provisioning for aws.

The credentials are always passed from a profile? or can you pass them directly from the code?

And the profile file does it require a specific directory or is inside the cookbook?

thanks in advance

Answer 1

i assume that you refer to knife-ec2 plugin. if so, then there are few options:

1. use aws configuration\credentials file (aws profile)
2. use configuration files (aws access\secret key)