How-To: Configure the AWS cloud provider with IAM Access key

The AWS provider allows you to deploy and connect to AWS resources from a Radius Environment on an EKS cluster. It can be configured:

• Interactively via rad init
• Manually via rad env update and rad credential register

Prerequisites

• AWS account and an IAM user
• Setup AWS CLI with your AWS credentials.
• rad CLI

Interactive configuration

1. Initialize a new environment with rad init --full:

   rad init --full
   

2. Follow the prompts, specifying:

   • Namespace - The Kubernetes namespace where your application containers and networking resources will be deployed (different than the Radius control-plane namespace, radius-system).
   • Add an AWS provider
     1. Select the “Access Key” option
     2. Enter IAM access key and secret key.
     3. Confirm the AWS account ID or provide the account ID you would like to use.
     4. Select a region to deploy your AWS resources to.
   • Environment name - The name of the environment to create.

   You should see the following output:

   Initializing Radius...
   
   ✅ Install Radius v0.41
      - Kubernetes cluster: k3d-k3s-default
      - Kubernetes namespace: radius-system
      - AWS IAM access key ID: ****
   ✅ Create new environment default
      - Kubernetes namespace: default
      - AWS: account ***** and region: us-west-2
   ✅ Scaffold application samples
   ✅ Update local configuration
   
   Initialization complete! Have a RAD time 😎
   

Manual configuration

1. Update your Radius Environment with your AWS region and AWS account ID:

   rad env update myEnvironment --aws-region myAwsRegion --aws-account-id myAwsAccountId
   

   This command updates the configuration of an environment for properties that are able to be changed. For more information visit rad env update

2. Add your AWS cloud provider credentials:

   rad credential register aws access-key --access-key-id myAccessKeyId --secret-access-key mySecretAccessKey
   

   For more information on the command arguments visit rad credential register aws access-key