How to use/build the plugin on Mac M1 architecture?

[olivier-schmitt-sonarsource]

Hi,

After a MacOs upgrade Monterey 12.1 Rosetta has been removed from my laptop.

I got:
bad CPU type in executable: /usr/local/bin/session-manager-plugin

I can not run the plugin anymore.

Do you plan to provide this plugin for M1 soon?
Is there a Python alternative to this plugin?
How to build it for M1?

Thanks.

[AndrewFarley]

@olivier-schmitt-sonarsource I believe this is built-into the 2.0 AWS CLI. Please uninstall your current AWSCLI and install 2.0 from this link from aws: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-version.html

Reference: I have stopped using SSH entirely for numerous clients and use SSM daily

[olivier-schmitt-sonarsource]

Just installed the aws-cli/2.4.7 and renamed my /usr/local/bin/session-manager-plugin executable to hide it.

I also ensured that no old CLI v1 was found in the path.

The AWS CLI v2 tries to execute system manager plugin a the start-session such as:
aws ssm start-session --target i-123456789 --document-name AWS-StartPortForwardingSession --parameters portNumber=22,localPortNumber=9100

If it does not found it, it outputs the following:

SessionManagerPlugin is not found. Please refer to SessionManager Documentation here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/console/systems-manager/session-manager-plugin-not-found

So it seems the plugin is still needed but the CLI manages the integration with plugin.

But, the rosetta emulator which allowed me to run the plugin has been re activated by a trick I found, so I don't have the problem anymore until it's removed again next time.

[rstml]

Assuming you're using brew with M1 support, you can simply do brew install session-manager-plugin.

It will be installed under /opt/homebrew/bin/session-manager-plugin which should be in your PATH.

[robdew]

brew install session-manager-plugin

this installs the x86_64 architecture not ARM.

❯ file /opt/homebrew/bin/session-manager-plugin
/opt/homebrew/bin/session-manager-plugin: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

[rstml]

oh, that's right... I assumed that all packages installed with M1 brew would be arm64. Having said that, this setup works fine for me with rosetta.

[jusunglee]

@rstml Do you have to do anything special to use or does rosetta automatically handle this under the hood? Like are you running terminal or session-manager-plugin using arch?

[inostia]

For now, you can install rosetta 2 to run the application.

After running the following command, session-manager-plugin works:
softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-license

[robdew]

You can install rosetta 2 to run the application.

Rosetta has adverse performance impacts. I believe this has been discussed in other issues. It's also not a long-term solution.

[amelluk]

bump. I cannot find an arm64 session-manager-plugin anywhere. We really need this.

[elyngved]

bump. I cannot find an arm64 session-manager-plugin anywhere. We really need this.

@amelluk Try the instructions here and make sure the ARM64 tab is selected: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/session-manager-working-with-install-plugin.html#install-plugin-macos

[tim-finnigan]

Version 1.2.463.0 includes support ARM64 for Apple Mac M1.