Eb tools with multiple aws accounts

Question

Is it possible to use Elastic Beanstalk Tools with two separate aws accounts in the same machine?

More description:

After installing elastic beanstalk tools as described here, I am able to initialize the setup in my project using

eb init

and supplying the aws id and secret. Everything is fine at this point. The issue here is that the credentials are automatically stored in ~/.aws/config and are read whenever the eb command is executed.

I have a second AWS account and would like to use eb tools there as well. Is it possible to make eb tools use a custom config file? I couldn't find anything in the documentation here

Thank you.

Answer 1

Yes, you can do multiple profiles using EB tools.

To create a new profile, you can use

aws configure --profile <your-profile-name>

It will generate a new profile inside ~/.aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config. Or, you can edit those file manually. Please read the documentation here.

After you generate the profile, you can append --profile <your-profile-name> to your eb init command:

eb init --profile <your-profile-name>

It will generate a config file (.elasticbeanstalk/config.yml). After that, if you want to deploy, just use:

eb deploy