# okta-awscli mit Homebrew installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für okta-awscli in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:okta-awscli ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install okta-awscli ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:okta-awscli - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Paketmanager-Seite:** - **Version:** 0.5.5 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Okta authentication for awscli - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Lizenz:** Apache-2.0 - **Quellarchiv:** - **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-10T11:10:12Z - **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00 ## Executables - okta-awscli (cli) - okta-awscli (Alias) ## Abhängigkeiten - certifi - python@3.14 ## Installationsverhalten - Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert - Bottle: verfügbar auf all ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-08-04 - Manager-Version: 0.5.5 - Manager aktualisiert: 2026-07-10 - lokale Daten: OK - Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/okta-awscli/okta-awscli - Info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available. ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung okta-awscli is a Python command-line bridge between Okta SSO and AWS command-line credentials. It authenticates a user with Okta, obtains a SAML assertion, and exchanges that assertion for temporary AWS STS credentials that can be used by awscli, boto, boto3, and other AWS API tooling. ### 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 - - - - - - - ## Sicherheitshinweise Für okta-awscli wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat. ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: ~/.okta-aws ## Credential files - Unix: ~/.aws/credentials, ~/.okta-credentials.cache ## Details aus der Quelldatenbank - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** okta-awscli - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 10 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Verwandte Links - [Cloud CLI packages](https://pkg.so/de/cloud-clis/) - Belongs to a cloud or infrastructure command family. - [Source-control packages](https://pkg.so/de/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family. - [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/de/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://pkg.so/de/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [python@3.14](https://pkg.so/de/brew/python-3-14/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [okta-aws-cli](https://pkg.so/de/brew/okta-aws-cli/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: aws, cli, identity, okta, security. - [aws-spiffe-workload-helper](https://pkg.so/de/brew/aws-spiffe-workload-helper/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: aws, cli, identity, security. - [aws-vault](https://pkg.so/de/brew/aws-vault/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: aws, cli, mfa, security. - [opensaml](https://pkg.so/de/brew/opensaml/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, identity, security. - [dexidp](https://pkg.so/de/brew/dexidp/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, identity, security. - [spiffe-helper](https://pkg.so/de/brew/spiffe-helper/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, identity, security. - [saml2aws](https://pkg.so/de/brew/saml2aws/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: aws, cli, security. - [granted](https://pkg.so/de/brew/granted/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: aws, cli, identity, security. - [parliament](https://pkg.so/de/brew/parliament/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: aws, cli, python, python-3-14, security. - [principalmapper](https://pkg.so/de/brew/principalmapper/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: aws, cli, python, python-3-14, security. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/okta-awscli.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/okta-awscli.yml) ## Quellen - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - pkgdb category and tag curation - package relationship graph - cross-ecosystem install command graph