circleci 2.0 can't find awscli - amazon-web-services

Question

I'm using circleCI 2.0 and they can't find aws but their documents clearly say that aws is installed in default
when I use this circle.yml
version: 2
jobs:
build:
working_directory: ~/rian
docker:
- image: node:boron
steps:
- checkout
- run:
name: Pre-Dependencies
command: mkdir ~/rian/artifacts
- restore_cache:
keys:
- rian-{{ .Branch }}-{{ checksum "yarn.lock" }}
- rian-{{ .Branch }}
- rian-master
- run:
name: Install Dependencies
command: yarn install
- run:
name: Test
command: |
node -v
yarn run test:ci
- save_cache:
key: rian-{{ .Branch }}-{{ checksum "yarn.lock" }}
paths:
- "~/.cache/yarn"
- store_artifacts:
path: ~/rian/artifacts
destination: prefix
- store_test_results:
path: ~/rian/test-results
- deploy:
command: aws s3 sync ~/rian s3://rian-s3-dev/ --delete
following error occurs:
/bin/bash: aws: command not found
Exited with code 127
so if I edit the code this way
- deploy:
command: |
apt-get install awscli
aws s3 sync ~/rian s3://rian-s3-dev/ --delete
then i get another kind of error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package awscli
Exited with code 100
Anyone knows how to fix this???

Answer 1

The document you are reading is for CircleCI 1.0 and for 2.0 is here:
https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/
In CircleCI 2.0, you can use your favorite Docker image. The image you are currently setting is node:boron, which does not include the aws command.
https://hub.docker.com/_/node/
https://github.com/nodejs/docker-node/blob/14681db8e89c0493e8af20657883fa21488a7766/6.10/Dockerfile
If you just want to make it work for now, you can install the aws command yourself in circle.yml.
apt-get update && apt-get install -y awscli
However, to take full advantage of Docker's benefits, it is recommended that you build a custom Docker image that contains the necessary dependencies such as the aws command.
You can write your custom aws-cli Docker image something like this:
FROM circleci/python:3.7-stretch
ENV AWS_CLI_VERSION=1.16.138
RUN sudo pip install awscli==${AWS_CLI_VERSION}

Answer 2

I hit this issue when deploying to AWS lambda functions and pushing files to S3 bucket. Finally solved it and then built a docker image to save time in installing the AWS CLI every time. Here is a link to the image and the repo!
https://github.com/wilson208/circleci-awscli
https://hub.docker.com/r/wilson208/circleci-awscli/
Fire a PR in or open an issue if you need anything added to the image and I will get to it when I can.
Edit:
Also, checkout the readme on github for examples of deploying a package to Lambda or pushing files to S3