The recommended way to authenticate docker with AWS ECR in order to push/pull images is using the following command: aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin AWS_ACCOUNT_ID.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com The problem is that it doesn’t work with…

According the documentation in Powershell the command should be (Get-ECRLoginCommand).Password | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin aws_account_id.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com and requires AWSPowershell to be installed.

Thanks. I was hoping there’s a way without using custom modules.

Nope, just tried it using AWS Powershell Tools and I get the same error. It looks like no matter what you do that first section before the pipe appends the new-line. This doesn’t work: (Get-ECRLoginCommand).Password | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin aws_account_id.dkr.ecr.region.amaz…

After wasting hours on this, I’ve finally found a solution. As I mentioned earlier, this works fine in CMD, so I figured I’d try to run CMD from PowerShell. Turns out you can do it like this: cmd.exe \c "your command" I then tried this, and it worked: cmd.exe \c "aws ecr get-login-password --re…

I submitted the issue here: Unable to pipe (Get-ECRLoginCommand).Password to --password-stdin · Issue #270 · aws/aws-tools-for-powershell · GitHub

Thank you a lot! I was struggling with wsl until I tried this

This works natively in PowerShell, or that Windows Terminal app from the Windows store $password = aws ecr get-login-password --region region; docker login --username AWS --password $password account-number.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com

Using AWS's ECR get-login-password and --password-stdin with Powershell

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meyay (Metin Y.) June 8, 2022, 5:02am 6

Can you raise an issue on the Github project of the AWSPowershell module?
If it indeed is a bug, the world would want it to be fixed: Issues · aws/aws-tools-for-powershell · GitHub

As I don’t have access to an ECR registry/repo at the moment, So I can’t test it myself and fill in the details of the issue.

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