I'm trying to use the Ask CLI to deploy an Alexa skill, but whenever I run ask deploy, I get this error:
[Error]: Cannot find the environment variable: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
I'm 100% sure the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID env variable is set to a valid access key. This is how I'm setting it in my ~/.zshrc file:
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKIBJRSRMxxxxxxxxx
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=fS0A6MS9Q9V1OIxKQjKwwaO2fxxxxxxxxxxxx
It is also set in my default AWS credentials at ~/.aws/credentials:
[default]
aws_access_key_id=AKIBJRSRMxxxxxxxxx
aws_secret_access_key=fS0A6MS9Q9V1OIxKQjKwwaO2fxxxxxxxxxxxx
I've re-run ask init multiple times and selected "load from env variables" and logged in through the browser successfully.
I've double checked my .zshrc is loaded with source ~/.zshrc. I've also echoed $AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID successfully:
echo $AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
AKIBJRSRMxxxxxxxxx
And I've tried running ask deploy with the access key variable directly:
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKIBJRSRMxxxxxxxxx ask deploy
[Error]: Cannot find the environment variable: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
And I know these credentials are valid because I created them an hour ago.
The ask init prompt even says We have detected you have AWS environment variables. Would you like to setup your profile using those? which I answer yes to:
I've created an issues in the alexa skills kit sdk repo:
https://github.com/alexa/alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-nodejs/issues/531
But the maintainers point other issue authors to SO and the amazon dev forum.
Versions:
- Ask CLI 1.6.4
- Node 10.11.0
- NPM 6.4.1
- Mac OSX Mojave 10.14.2
- AWS CLI
aws-cli/1.16.56 Python/2.7.13 Darwin/18.2.0 botocore/1.12.46
EDIT:
I was able to deploy successfully by downgrading to [email protected]. It appears this bug was introduced in [email protected].
ask --versionto the question (1.6.4 according to the bug report) – Sébastien Stormacq