aws eks missing when running job and aws --version mismatch

[phil-lgr]

A minimal config:

version: 2.1
orbs:
  aws-cli: circleci/aws-cli@0.1.13
  aws-ecr: circleci/aws-ecr@4.0.1
  helm: circleci/helm@0.1.0
workflows:
  version: 2
  build_test_deploy:
    jobs:
      - aws_cli_setup
      - build_test_deploy:
          requires: 
            - aws_cli_setup
jobs:
  build_test_deploy:
    machine: 
      docker_layer_caching: true
    working_directory: ~/repo
    steps:
      - checkout
      - run: aws --version
      - run: aws eks update-kubeconfig --name erp-app-cluster
      - helm/install-helm-client
      - run: helm list
  aws_cli_setup:
    working_directory: ~/repo
    executor: aws-cli/default
    steps:
      - aws-cli/install
      - aws-cli/configure:
          profile-name: circle-ci
          aws-access-key-id: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
          aws-secret-access-key: AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
          aws-region: AWS_REGION
      - aws-ecr/ecr-login:
          region: AWS_REGION      

the aws_cli_setup job completes but when I run aws eks I get:

Invalid choice: 'eks', maybe you meant:

I don't understand why aws eks is not available with that version of the aws cli...

in the other job, build_test_deploy, - run: aws --version reports a different version, I don't get it :(

[phil-lgr]

I opened a thread but the CircleCI employee didn't know at the end and recommended I open an issue here: https://discuss.circleci.com/t/orb-circleci-aws-cli-is-not-really-the-aws-cli-eks-command-missing/30240/14

[iynere]

@phil-lgr are you installing the CLI via the orb in one job, & then attempting to use it in another job ? that won't work, as the version you're installing in the first job won't persist in the second job.

[iynere]

@phil-lgr can you try running aws eks commands in the same job as that you're running aws-cli/install and aws-cli/configure?

[phil-lgr]

ah! then I'm just dumb, how can i run the steps in my main job? the executor are not the same

[iynere]

that shouldn't matter @phil-lgr

please give it a shot. thanks!

[iynere]

the aws-cli orb could use some attention in general—there's no reason for us to be publishing an executor at all, when the orb only has commands & not jobs. i'll try to clean it up a bit today. thanks!

[phil-lgr]

@iynere thanks a lot, yes I'm not a DevOps God so that part really confused me, it works now!