Feature request: Add a login command to AWS connection

[forty]

We use SAML to login to aws. We have a script to login to a given profile use as such:

iam-login <profile_name>

which handles doing the SSO SAML flow (we don't use AWS SSO) and generating the role credentials in .aws/credentials

In order not to have to login manually to each account beforehand, I would love to be able to do something like

connection "aws_account_1" {
  plugin = "aws"
  profile = "account_1"
  login_command = "aws-login account_1"
}

[cbruno10]

@forty Thanks for raising this request!

I believe we have had some previous discussions in various issues and PRs in this repo, along with a few other plugin repos. What we ultimately created as a feature request (but have not yet progressed with) was https://github.com/turbot/steampipe/issues/1426, which describes the ability to add hooks, which could then be used to run commands or scripts.

Would the ability to add hooks help your use case?

[forty]

@cbruno10 sorry I missed you answer earlier. Hooks seems perfect for this use case. Should I close this issue?

Thanks!

[cbruno10]

Hey @forty , yes I think we can close this issue. This issue is now linked to the other one as well, so when we look at implementing the hook feature as part of https://github.com/turbot/steampipe/issues/1426, we'll be sure to reference this issue as well.

If you have any other requirements, suggestions, use cases, etc., please add them into https://github.com/turbot/steampipe/issues/1426 as well. Thanks!