awslabs/amazon-ecr-credential-helper

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2714 stars · 351 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Docker credential helper that automatically fetches AWS credentials for Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) during docker push and docker pull. It is a small Go binary configured via Docker's config., eliminating the need to run `aws ecr get-login` manually.

Use cases

• push images to Amazon ECR without manually running aws ecr get-login
• pull private images from ECR in CI/CD pipelines
• avoid storing long-lived ECR tokens in docker config
• automatically refresh expired ECR registry credentials
• authenticate docker daemon with AWS IAM credentials

When to choose

• you regularly push or pull images to/from Amazon ECR
• you want token refresh handled automatically instead of 12-hour login tokens
• you run Docker on Linux, macOS, or Windows with AWS credentials available

When to avoid

• you use a registry other than Amazon ECR
• you use Podman/containerd with different credential handling and no Docker daemon
• you cannot provide AWS credentials on the host

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

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