okta-awscli mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
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Befehle und Aliase

• okta-awscli

Projektgeschichte

The GitHub repository was created on 2017-07-22. Its README positions the project as a successor-style implementation inspired by nimbusscale/okta_aws_login, with the important design difference that okta-awscli uses Okta APIs during authentication rather than scraping and parsing HTML.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The package sits in the long-running niche of enterprise AWS federation helpers. Okta developer forum threads from 2017 and AWS documentation for AssumeRoleWithSAML show the underlying need: organizations wanted AWS CLI access without distributing long-lived IAM user keys, using a corporate identity provider and AWS STS instead.

Wie es verwendet wird

Operators configure Okta and AWS profile details in a local okta-awscli configuration file, then run the executable to populate or refresh AWS credential material. The practical workflow is less about general Okta administration and more about making federated, MFA-backed AWS access feel like normal AWS CLI profile usage.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package nerds, okta-awscli is a good example of a small package that encodes an enterprise identity pattern: browser SSO and SAML federation collapsed into a repeatable CLI credential flow. Its continued Homebrew packaging also records the era before vendor-provided AWS federation CLIs fully absorbed this use case.

Zeitleiste

• 2017-07-22: The okta-awscli/okta-awscli repository was created on GitHub.
• 2018-2024: Public issues and packaging activity show maintenance around Okta MFA behavior, Python dependencies, macOS certificate handling, and AWS credential edge cases.
• 2026-07-01: GitHub repository metadata reported 314 stars, 144 forks, Python as the primary language, and Apache-2.0 licensing.

Related projects

• Related tools include nimbusscale/okta_aws_login, Okta's community-supported okta-aws-cli-assume-role, and Okta's separate okta-aws-cli project. AWS STS AssumeRoleWithSAML is the underlying AWS operation that makes the pattern possible.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/okta-awscli/okta-awscli
• https://devforum.okta.com/t/accessing-aws-cli-through-okta/161
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/STS/latest/APIReference/API_AssumeRoleWithSAML.html
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/okta-awscli
• https://github.com/okta-awscli/okta-awscli
• https://github.com/okta/okta-aws-cli
• https://github.com/oktadev/okta-aws-cli-assume-role