Query awscliv2 version

[MrAtheist]

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• Service API : I want to do X using Y service, what should I do?
• CLI : passing arguments or cli configurations.
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Describe the question

Building on top of this thread, i would like a programmatic way to query the cli version provided by https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip (even though im guessing it's supposed to be the latest...) to build out a docker tag. Is there such an API for this?

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[kdaily]

Hi @MrAtheist,

Thanks for the post. The methods to determine the version are either use aws --version after the CLI is installed, or check the available or latest tags on the GitHub repository, and use it to download a specific artifact by appending the version number to the file name, like https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64-2.4.1.zip.

There's an open feature request at #5471 to be able to use the GitHub latest release feature to query for the most recently published tag or release, which would allow you to get the version.

We also publish our own Dockerfile for the AWS CLI v2 that you could build off of:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/install-cliv2-docker.html

If you're building your own container image, you might be interested in the source distribution for AWS CLI v2 as well, work is ongoing for this:

#6352

[MrAtheist]

Format like https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64-2.4.1.zip works for me, or maybe i can query from
https://api.github.com/repos/aws/aws-cli/tags to grab the latest tag as mentioned in #5471

Closing this in favor of #5471

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