(command-juju-autoload-credentials)=
# `juju autoload-credentials`
> See also: [add-credential](#add-credential), [credentials](#credentials), [default-credential](#default-credential), [remove-credential](#remove-credential)

## Summary
Attempts to automatically detect and add credentials for a cloud.

## Usage
```juju autoload-credentials [options] [<cloud-type>]```

### Options
| Flag | Default | Usage |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `-B`, `--no-browser-login` | false | Do not use web browser for authentication |
| `-c`, `--controller` |  | Controller to operate in |
| `--client` | false | Client operation |

## Examples

    juju autoload-credentials
    juju autoload-credentials --client
    juju autoload-credentials --controller mycontroller
    juju autoload-credentials --client --controller mycontroller
    juju autoload-credentials aws


## Details

The command searches well known, cloud-specific locations on this client.
If credential information is found, it is presented to the user
in a series of prompts to facilitated interactive addition and upload.
An alternative to this command is `juju add-credential`

After validating the contents, credentials are added to
this Juju client if --client is specified.

To upload credentials to a controller, use --controller option. 

Below are the cloud types for which credentials may be autoloaded,
including the locations searched.

EC2
  Credentials and regions:
    1. On Linux, $HOME/.aws/credentials and $HOME/.aws/config
    2. Environment variables AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

GCE
  Credentials:
    1. A JSON file whose path is specified by the
       GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable
    2. On Linux, $HOME/.config/gcloud/application_default_credentials.json
       Default region is specified by the CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_REGION environment
       variable.
    3. On Windows, %APPDATA%\gcloud\application_default_credentials.json

OpenStack
  Credentials:
    1. On Linux, $HOME/.novarc
    2. Environment variables OS_USERNAME, OS_PASSWORD, OS_TENANT_NAME,
	   OS_DOMAIN_NAME

LXD
  Credentials:
    1. On Linux, $HOME/.config/lxc/config.yml