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Installation

Installation

Currently only installation via pip is supported.

Requirements

Python pip PyPI - Python Version Python pip

The host taskcat is run on requires access to an AWS account, this can be done by any of the following mechanisms:

  1. Environment variables
  2. Shared credential file (~/.aws/credentials)
  3. AWS config file (~/.aws/config)
  4. Assume Role provider
  5. Boto2 config file (/etc/boto.cfg and ~/.boto)
  6. Instance metadata service on an Amazon EC2 instance that has an IAM role configured.

for more info see the boto3 credential configuration documentation.

Note

docker is only required if building lambda functions using a Dockerfile

Installing via pip3

pip3 install taskcat

Installing via pip3 --user

will install taskcat into homedir, useful if you get permissions errors with the regular method

pip3 install taskcat --user
Note

The user install dir is platform specific

On Mac:

  • ~/Library/Python/3.x/bin/taskcat

On Linux:

  • ~/.local/bin

Warning

Be sure to add the python bin dir to your $PATH

Windows

Taskcat on Windows is not supported.

If you are running Windows 10 we recommend that you install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and then install taskcat inside the WSL environment. For details, see Install and configure TaskCat on Microsoft Windows 10.