The secret_key parameter especially can contain non-ascii characters and
will throw an error if such a string is passed as a byte str.
Potential fix for #13303
* StandardError doesn't exist in python3
* because it is the root of builtin expections, we can't catch it
separate from the builtin exceptions
* It doesn't tell us anything about the error being thrown as it's too
generic
You can extend boto to point at other regions that are defined in a
private cloud by defining ``BOTO_ENDPOINTS`` or ``endpoints_path`` in
the ``~/.boto`` file.
Ansible was doing a premature check against a hard-coded list of regions
that interrupted this possibility. This commit removes that and
clarifies what the user can do if they specify a non-AWS region.
There are still a couple of modules that use their own lists, but that should not prevent this merge, those should be adapted to use this list in subsequent patch
* Adds another module utility file which generalizes the
access of urls via the urllib* libraries.
* Adds a new spec generator for common arguments.
* Makes the user-agent string configurable.
Fixes#6211
Allow security tokens and profiles to be used as arguments
to the 'common' ec2 modules
Mostly refactoring to provide two new methods,
`get_aws_connection_info`, which results in a dict that can be
passed through to the boto `connect_to_region` calls, and
`connect_to_aws` that can pass that dict through to the
`connect_to_region` method of the appropriate module.
Tidied up some variable names
Works around boto/boto#2100
profiles don't work with boto < 2.24, but this detects for that
and fails with an appropriate message. It is designed to work
if profile is not passed but boto < 2.24 is installed.
Modifications to allow empty aws auth variables to be passed
(this is useful if wanting to have the keys as an optional
parameter in ec2 calls - if set, use this value, if not set,
use boto config or env variables)
Reworked validate_certs improvements to work with refactoring
Added documentation for profile and security_token to affected modules
When disabled, the boto connection will be instantiated without validating
the SSL certificate from the target endpoint. This allows the modules to connect
to Eucalyptus instances running with self-signed certs without errors.
Fixes#3978
This doesn't account for boto configs where e.g. RDS has one
default region and EC2 another - all will default to `ec2_region_name`.
However, this is just handy to allow an easy site wide default
region if existing configuration already relies on it.
Modules can be improved to mention this in the documentation and
turn off required=True where needed. But it works with `ec2`
and `ec2_vol` without change.
Refactor the currently well-factored ec2 modules (i.e. those that already use ec2_connect) to
have a common argument spec. The idea is that new modules can use this spec without duplication
of code, and that new functionality can be added to the ec2 connection code (e.g. security
token argument)
