chalice helloworld deployment issue

Question

I was learning about deploying the basic helloworld app in chalice with the help of https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/chalice/latest/chalice.pdf I get an error unable to parse config file .aws/config need help in resolving the error

Answer 1

So I have been building a full production Chalice application and I can tell you that there isn't a lot of good documentation easy to find. I found the full documentation here.

You need to do the following:

$ pip install virtualenv
$ virtualenv ~/.virtualenvs/chalice
$ source ~/.virtualenvs/chalice/bin/activate

Then find out what version of Python you are using:

$ which python3.6
/usr/local/bin/python3.6
$ virtualenv --python $(which python3.6) ~/.virtualenvs/chalice
$ source ~/.virtualenvs/chalice/bin/activate

Then install:

pip install chalice

Now the important part for DEPLOYING...You need to setup the config file:

$ mkdir ~/.aws
$ cat >> ~/.aws/config
[default]
aws_access_key_id=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_HERE
aws_secret_access_key=YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
region=YOUR_REGION (such as us-west-2, us-west-1, etc)

After all that is setup, you can create your chalice project:

$ chalice new-project {YOUR PROJECT NAME}

Then you can simply deploy:

$ chalice deploy

If anyone has any questions, you can hit me up.