feat: Add cli install option

[davidkarlsen]

It would be handy if the action could also have a flag install_cli: true|false, default false in order to install the latest cli on self-hosted runners. Related https://github.com/aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials/issues/113

[peterwoodworth]

Thanks for the request @davidkarlsen, could you please explain why we would want to do this when runners come with this preinstalled? If the latest version is required, that could be configured through a separate step like seen here. If enough people think it would be useful for us to directly support this then we can think about implementing it 🙂

[davidkarlsen]

Thanks for the request @davidkarlsen, could you please explain why we would want to do this when runners come with this preinstalled? If the latest version is required, that could be configured through a separate step like seen here. If enough people think it would be useful for us to directly support this then we can think about implementing it 🙂

That only holds true for [github] hosted runners, while self-hosted don't. There seems to be some wishes for this as there are 12 thumbs up.

[peterwoodworth]

I'm going to be closing this because we've decided we will not support it. If you need to configure the latest CLI for any reason, you can do that through other means. Setting up an action that can install the CLI on any environment should be its own GitHub action; it doesn't look like any of the actions that install the CLI are both up to date and cover all platforms though.

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