boto3-refresh-session is live!

[michaelthomasletts]

Hello, everyone!

Although this project is obviously small, I believe it nevertheless serves a helpful function for engineers working with boto3. That helpful function being this: it is not uncommon for pipelines and workflows that interact with the AWS API via boto3 to run for a long time and, accordingly, for temporary credentials to expire. Usually, engineers resolve that problem one of two ways: with try except blocks that catch ClientError exceptions or a similar approach as that used in this project -- that is, using methods available within botocore for refreshing temporary credentials automatically. Speaking personally, variations of the code found herein exists in code bases at nearly every company where I have worked. Sometimes, I turned that code into a module; other times, I wrote it from scratch. Noticing a pattern, I decided to finally turn that code into a proper Python package with unit testing, documentation, and quality checks; the idea being that, henceforth, depending on my employer's open source policy, I may simply import this package instead of reproducing the code herein for the Nth time.

As any other project, please use the Issues section of this project to raise concerns or share feedback. Or, of course, you are also free to respond to this announcement!

I sincerely hope you all find this project helpful in whatever it is that you do with boto3!

Thanks!

Mike Letts