New AK/SK environment variables and configuration files

[RomLecat]

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Description

Outscale does now have a standard of environment variables and config files for its API configuration that we'd like to see implemented in Packer to have a consistent scheme between all Outscale tools.

This is the new environment variables:

Name	Type	Example	Description
OSC_ACCESS_KEY	string	F4K4T706S9XKGIABNWB9	Access Key
OSC_SECRET_KEY	string	E4XJE8EJ98ZEJ18E4J9ZE84J19Q8E1J9S87ZEZEJ5E41K	Secret Key
OSC_X509_CLIENT_CERT	string	/etc/secret/client.crt	Full path to client certificate (.crt, public part)
OSC_X509_CLIENT_KEY	string	/etc/secret/client.key	Full path to client key related to certificate (.key, secret part)
OSC_PROTOCOL	string	https	Protocol to use: https (default) or http
OSC_METHOD	string	post	HTTP method to use: "post" or "get" (default is "post")
OSC_REGION	string	eu-west-2
OSC_ENDPOINT_API	string	api.eu-west-2.outscale.com/api/v1	Endpoint of Outscale API (without protocol)
OSC_PROFILE	string	default	Profile to use in configuration file (default is "default")

(Those AK/SK are example only and not tied to any account, no worries)
The configuration file is located in ~/.osc/config.json and looks like this:

{
  "default": {
    "access_key": "xxxx",
    "secret_key": "xxxx",
    "x509_client_cert": "/etc/secret/client.crt",
    "x509_client_cert": "/etc/secret/client.key",
    "protocol": "https",
    "method": "post",
    "region": "us-east-2"
    "endpoints": {
      "api": "api.eu-west-2.outscale.com/api/v1"
    }
  }
}

The new environment variables should be evaluated first, with a fallback to the legacy (current) ones if they're not defined.
A new profile setting should also be added to Packer configuration to define which profile needs to be used in the config file (if config file is used), and would be set to "default" if the field is omitted.

[RomLecat]

Hello,

Any update on this one ?

[outscale-mdr]

Hello @RomLecat,

We currently don't have any estimated date for the next release. The next release will include this enhancement.