Error: Credentials could not be loaded, please check your action inputs: Could not load credentials from any providers

[gulskr]

Okay, so I have created a reusable workflow for all my business jobs and and I am calling the reusable workflow in other repo within a private repo. When I try to run this workflow on github action, it throws a very strange error, credentials could not be loaded, but when I run the workflow without calling reusable it fetch the credential and works fine, Can anyone help me with this issue. @aws-dash @aws-sdk-osds @kanchana-aws @smithy
This is my reusable workflow code-

name: Reusable workflow

on:
workflow_call:

jobs:
start_ec2:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Check User
run: |
echo "GitHub Actor: $GITHUB_ACTOR"

  - name: Debug AWS Credentials
    run: |
      echo "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}"
      echo "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}"


  - name: Checkout Repository
    uses: actions/checkout@v4
    with:
      ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.branch }}  
  
  - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
    with:
      python-version: '3.10'
  
  - name: Configure AWS credentials
    uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
    with:
      aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
      aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
      aws-region: ap-south-1
  
  - name: Generate Date and Time - build
    id: date-time-ecr
    run: |
      echo "output=$(date +'%d-%m-%y-%H-%M-%S')" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT

  - name: install boto3
    run: |
      pip install boto3 

  - name: run
    run: |
      python automation-scripts/aws/start_resources_ec2_rds.py

This is the workflwo where i am calling this reusable workflow:
name: Start AWS EC2 & RDS - Reusable
run-name: Build initiated by ${{ github.actor }} for branch ${{inputs.branch}}

on:
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
branch:
description: 'Select Branch'
required: true
default: 'main'
type: choice
options:
- main

allow use id-token - also i have tried with this and without works same

permissions:
id-token: write # required!
contents: read

jobs:
call-workflow-passing-data:
uses: user-name/repo-name/.github/workflows/reusable_workflow.yml@main

[cscetbon]

Any news on this ?

[gulskr]

Hi @cscetbon , so yeah it is resolved actually I forgot to answer here but I have made a gist on this topic here [https://gist.github.com/gulskr/c62b31ac1ce1f4defc5470bba8cab05c], but anyway in my case when I was calling that reusable workflow, I just have to inherit the secrets like this,
# Here you can see we have called the reusable_workflow.yml@main jobs: call-workflow-passing-data: uses: gulskr/Python-boto/.github/workflows/reusable_workflow.yml@main secrets: inherit
But i suggest you just see the gist and see the code, you will get to know the problem, If need any more help please mention me

[cscetbon]

Thanks I was also able to figure this out after a few PRs. I'm surprised you use the branch name here cause it's not supported based on the doc

[gulskr]

I don't know why but when I try with the main, it takes the main branch and the workflow was working fine, that's why!!

[gulskr]

Closing the discussion as it is solved.

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