GitHub actions "aws: not found" error on ubuntu-latest with Godot CI

Question

I'm implementing a workflow that I am fairly familiar with, deploying a web distribution to AWS using GitHub actions. The only thing that's new here is that the project is built with Godot engine, so maybe that step is messing something up. By default, the AWS CLI is installed on ubuntu-latest.

Here's my GitHub workflow:

jobs:
  export-web:
    name: Web Export
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    container:
      image: barichello/godot-ci:4.3
    steps:

      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          lfs: true

      - name: Setup
        run: |
          mkdir -v -p ~/.local/share/godot/export_templates/
          mv /root/.local/share/godot/export_templates/${GODOT_VERSION}.stable ~/.local/share/godot/export_templates/${GODOT_VERSION}.stable

      - name: Web Build
        run: |
          mkdir -v -p build/web
          EXPORT_DIR="$(readlink -f build)"
          cd $PROJECT_PATH
          godot --headless --verbose --export-release "Web" "$EXPORT_DIR/web/index.html"

      - name: Upload Artifact
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: web
          path: build/web

      - name: Configure AWS Credentials
        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v1
        with:
          aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
          aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
          aws-region: us-east-1

      - name: Publish to AWS S3
        run: aws s3 cp --recursive ./build/web/ s3://${{ secrets.AWS_DISTRIBUTION_S3_BUCKET }}/

      - name: Invalidate AWS CloudFront distribution
        run: aws cloudfront create-invalidation --distribution-id ${{ secrets.AWS_CLOUDFRONT_DISTRIBUTION_ID }} --paths "/*"

And here's the log of the failed step, "Publish to AWS S3"

Run aws s3 cp --recursive ./build/web/ s3://***/
  aws s3 cp --recursive ./build/web/ s3://***/
  shell: sh -e {0}
  env:
    GODOT_VERSION: 4.3
    EXPORT_NAME: bubble-up
    PROJECT_PATH: project
    AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: us-east-1
    AWS_REGION: us-east-1
    AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ***
    AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ***
/__w/_temp/0957ef75-e32d-4d86-a85d-b14ede405e83.sh: 1: aws: not found
Error: Process completed with exit code 127.

Answer 1

From the documentation, runs-on: ubuntu-latest is only the specification for the virtual machine that runs the container barichello/godot-ci:4.3 and barichello/godot-ci:4.3 itself doesn't have AWS CLI installed. You could try installing it manually in the configuration by adding the following step after Setup step

      - name: Install AWS CLI
        run: |
          apt-get -y update
          apt-get -y install python3-pip
          pip3 install awscli