AWS Credentials Support

We build this "plugin" to support AWSCredentials resolution inside the gradle build script.

Problem

We have maven artifacts published to S3 which is not public. Additionally we have a second set of credentials for our "private" AWS Account which we use for exploration and configuration

• For Local Development we use our own developer credentials

• For Accessing AWS Services we use a second set of AWS Credentials

• The CI environment uses its EC2 Meta Data Role Credentials

To manage this we have build a very simple class abstraction that is able to take the profile name of your AWS credentials

maven {
        Credentials credentials = AwsCredentialsSupport.credentials("profilename")
        url "s3://artifactory/release"
        credentials(AwsCredentials) {
            accessKey credentials.accessKeyId()
            secretKey credentials.secretKey()
            sessionToken credentials.sessionToken()
        }
    }

Why a Plugin?

Well you may ask why we want a plugin for this. At the time we are maintaining about 15 Repositories that each have a buildSrc folder with the code that is in this plugin. This became a nuisance and we did not want to copy paste the buildSrc into each new project. Additionally the build is a bit slower when having a buildSrc folder.

Feel free to contribute to this if you need more features e.g. multi profile or CredentialProviderChain order definition.