Allows alternate profile for S3 refs. #316
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Allows e.g., Terraform modules to be pulled from a different account than the one where the S3 backend is being initialized.
Some organizations use multiple accounts for security isolation between e.g., dev, test and production environments. Custom modules may be defined in another, distinct account for build / CICD / artifact repository purposes.
By default, the AWS SDK will look for credentials in a section of
~/.aws/credentials
when theAWS_PROFILE
environment is set with the name of the section. In order to pull modules from one account and apply them another, it would be useful to specify different different profiles for the source and target accounts. This patch allows setting a different environment key (per module reference) to indicate which profile to use for the source account (the application-target account can keep using the default key ofAWS_PROFILE
).E.g.,
main.tf
Command: