Terraform AWS credentials file not found

Question

In reading the docs over at Terraform it says there are 3 options for finding AWS credientials:

1. Static Credentials( embedded in the source file )
2. Environment variables.
3. From the AWS credentials file

I am trying to have my setup just use the credential file. I've checked that the environment variables are cleared and I have left the relevant variables in Terraform blank.

When I do this and run 'Terraform Plan' I get the error:

No Valid credential sources found for AWS Provider.

I've even tried adding the location of my credentials file into my provider block and that didn't help either:

provider "aws" {
    region  = "${var.region}"
    profile = "${var.profile}"
    shared_credentials_file = "/Users/david/.aws/credentials"
    profile = "testing"
}

Is there something I'm missing to get Terraform to read this file and not require environment variables?

Answer 1

To get multiple profiles to work with Terraform make sure that you supply the

aws_access_key_id 

piece to your profile declaration. Each profile should look like this:

[profile_name]
aws_access_key=*****
aws_secret_access_key****
aws_access_key_id=*****

Technically you don't even need the aws_access_key as it seems the id version is what the underlying aws cli needs. Maybe it was me, but that was never clear in the documents I read.