Cloud developers struggle to keep CLI credentials ephemeral and out of logs
Cloud developers and CI maintainers want to authenticate command-line tools without leaving credentials in plaintext files, exposing passwords in command arguments, or leaking generated secrets into logs. The requests point to gaps in how credentials are supplied and how CLI configuration is stored; one reported workaround uses a RAM-backed config directory. A small tool could improve isolation and handling around existing CLIs, but it cannot guarantee that every tool or workflow will avoid exposing secrets.
For cloud developers and CI maintainers. Mentioned from May 2018 to Jun 2024 on GitHub.
5 different people described this problem in 4 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 4.0/10
- Pain
- 6.7/10
- Frequency
- 6.5/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Businesses
- Competition
- High
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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But my AWS secrets are still showing up in the logs. Those values are dynamic and not known until terraform outputs them, so I'm not sure what else I could do
I'm concerned that I cannot use the CLI without having my credentials written to disk in the clear
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