Terraform is a interesting (in my opinion) tool to implement Infrastructure-as-Code. When I first used it to write production script at yesterday, I met a error report:

Error: error validating provider credentials: error calling sts:GetCallerIdentity: NoCredentialProviders: no valid providers in chain. Deprecated.
        For verbose messaging see aws.Config.CredentialsChainVerboseErrors

After a while of searching on Google, I got the cause: it can’t find my AWS credential in my computer.
Actually I have ‘~/.aws/credentials’ file, and the ‘access_key_id’, ‘secret_access_key’ are already in it. Like this:

[default]
aws_access_key_id = ABCDEFG
aws_secret_access_key = A1B2C3D4abcABC

So why can’t Terraform get the credential? The reason is in the ‘provider’ section:

provider "aws" {
  region = var.region
  profile = var.aws_profile
}

I set the ‘profile’ to ‘analytics’ at first, so the Terraform tried to find something looks like ‘[analytics]’ in ‘~/.aws/credentials’ file, and it failed. The correct way is just set ‘profile’ in ‘provider’ section to ‘default’.