aws provider with s3 backend setup

[Ernesto Cejas]

Hi,

I cant get "terraform init" to succeed. I don't understand how how troubleshoot this. 

i have in example.tf :

terraform { 

     backend "s3" { 

       bucket = "<bucketname>" 

       region = "us-east-1" 

       encrypt = true 

       kms_key_id = "<kms_key>" 

       key = "<filename>"  

       dynamodb_table = "<table_name>" 

     } 

}

provider "aws" { 

  region = "us-east-1" 

  access_key = "<key>" 

  secret_key = "<key>" 

}

when I do $./terraform init  i get:

Error configuring the backend "s3": No valid credential sources found for AWS Provider...

When I use local state files, it inits fine. What are possible points of failures for this?

thanks!

[Ernesto Cejas]

So, it works when I populate the environment variables (AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY). Also works if I create the ~/.aws/credentials file with default profile. 

So, my question becomes now: Why terraform doesnt detect inline credentials for remote backend? In which cases this could happen?

thanks! 

[Trung Nguyen Kien]

Per https://www.terraform.io/docs/backends/types/s3.html, you need to configure access_key and secret_key as attributes in `backend "s3"` block.

I don't think `provider` block reflects here.