Add ECS server #556
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AWS SDKs universally support the ECS Credential Service, which supports
reading the service URI from environment variables.
Providing an http interface allows the subprocess to refresh credentials
as long as the master credentials session is valid.
Supporting the ECS Credential provider offers the following advantages
over the EC2 Metadata provider:
- Binding to a random, ephimeral port
- Does not require adminstrator privileges
- Allows multiple providers simultaneously for discrete processes
- Partially mitigates the security issues that accompany the EC2
Metadata Service because the address is not well-known
- Requiring an Authorization token further mitigates the potential for
another process to access the credentials, since the Authorization
token is only exposed to the subprocess via environment variables
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Thank you @jstewmon, this is way better than the current ec2 server. Next question, should we make |
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Rebases #375
AWS SDKs universally support the ECS Credential Service, which supports
reading the service URI from environment variables.
Providing an http interface allows the subprocess to refresh credentials
as long as the master credentials session is valid.
Supporting the ECS Credential provider offers the following advantages
over the EC2 Metadata provider:
Metadata Service because the address is not well-known
another process to access the credentials, since the Authorization
token is only exposed to the subprocess via environment variables