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Node Installation

AWS credentials are needed just for initial setting up Mantil in your account. After the initial setup, the other commands won't need your AWS credentials.

To install Mantil in a region of an AWS account, use mantil aws install. This will create Mantil node in your AWS account. A node consists of a set of Lambda functions, API Gateway and a S3 bucket. After the node is created, all other communication is between the CLI and the node.

Mantil is not storing your AWS credentials; they are only used during node install and later uninstall.

You can provide AWS credentials in three different ways:

  • As command line arguments:
mantil aws install --aws-access-key-id=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE \
                   --aws-secret-access-key=wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY \
                   --aws-region=us-east-1
  • Set environment variables AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION and instruct Mantil to use that environment:
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1
mantil aws install --aws-env
  • Allow Mantil to use a named profile from your AWS configuration (~/.aws/config):
mantil aws install --aws-profile=my-named-profile

Install action usually less than 2 minutes to complete.
After install mantil aws nodes command will show that node: 

➜ mantil aws nodes
| NAME | AWS ACCOUNT  |  AWS REGION  |    ID    | VERSION |
|------|--------------|--------------|----------|---------|
| demo | 052548195718 | eu-central-1 | 7582352e | v0.2.5  |

A node is located in a region of an AWS account. You can have multiple nodes in the same or different account.