Deploying an ec2 instance without using aws secret access key and aws access key id

Question

My workstation and server are both RHEL ec2 instances and whenever I run the command:-

knife ec2 server create -r “role[----------]” -I ami-XXXXXXXX -f t2.small -S knife -i ~/.ssh/XXXXXXXXXXX.ppk –ssh-user ec2-user –region us-east-1 -Z us-east-1a

I am getting the error as ERROR: You did not provide a valid ‘AWS Access Key Id’ value. ERROR: You did not provide a valid ‘AWS Secret Access Key’ value.

Nor I want to use the secret access key and access key id and neither I want to save them on the workstation. Is there any other way to deploy a new ec2 instance(node) ,perhaps using IAM role . thank you

Answer 1

AFAIK we don't support role credentials in knife-ec2, you'll have to use something else to start the machine (like the aws command line). Once created, you can use knife bootstrap to set up Chef.