circleci 2.0 can't find awscli

Question

I'm using circleCI 2.0 and they can't find aws but their documents clearly say that aws is installed in default

when I use this circle.yml

version: 2
jobs:
  build:
    working_directory: ~/rian
    docker:
        - image: node:boron
    steps:
        - checkout
        - run:
            name: Pre-Dependencies
            command: mkdir ~/rian/artifacts
        - restore_cache:
            keys: 
              - rian-{{ .Branch }}-{{ checksum "yarn.lock" }}
              - rian-{{ .Branch }}
              - rian-master
        - run:
            name: Install Dependencies
            command: yarn install
        - run:
            name: Test
            command: |
              node -v
              yarn run test:ci
        - save_cache:
            key: rian-{{ .Branch }}-{{ checksum "yarn.lock" }}
            paths:
              - "~/.cache/yarn"
        - store_artifacts:
            path: ~/rian/artifacts
            destination: prefix
        - store_test_results:
            path: ~/rian/test-results
        - deploy:
            command: aws s3 sync ~/rian s3://rian-s3-dev/ --delete

following error occurs:

/bin/bash: aws: command not found
Exited with code 127

so if I edit the code this way

    - deploy:
        command: |
          apt-get install awscli
          aws s3 sync ~/rian s3://rian-s3-dev/ --delete

then i get another kind of error:

Reading package lists... Done


Building dependency tree       


Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package awscli
Exited with code 100

Anyone knows how to fix this???

Answer 1

The document you are reading is for CircleCI 1.0 and for 2.0 is here:

https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/

In CircleCI 2.0, you can use your favorite Docker image. The image you are currently setting is node:boron, which does not include the aws command.

• https://hub.docker.com/_/node/
• https://github.com/nodejs/docker-node/blob/14681db8e89c0493e8af20657883fa21488a7766/6.10/Dockerfile

If you just want to make it work for now, you can install the aws command yourself in circle.yml.

apt-get update && apt-get install -y awscli

However, to take full advantage of Docker's benefits, it is recommended that you build a custom Docker image that contains the necessary dependencies such as the aws command.

You can write your custom aws-cli Docker image something like this:

FROM circleci/python:3.7-stretch

ENV AWS_CLI_VERSION=1.16.138
RUN sudo pip install awscli==${AWS_CLI_VERSION}