The Error

Installing awscli into a docker container running node:latest.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-to-manage-secrets-for-amazon-ec2-container-service-based-applications-by-using-amazon-s3-and-docker/

  Failed building wheel for pyyaml
  Running setup.py clean for pyyaml
Failed to build pyyaml
Installing collected packages: pyyaml
  Running setup.py install for pyyaml ... error
    Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3.4 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-wd2m_by7/pyyaml/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-ulirskuk-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    running install
    running build
    running build_py
    creating build
    creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4
    creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/yaml
    copying lib3/yaml/error.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/yaml
    copying lib3/yaml/events.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/yaml
    copying lib3/yaml/representer.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/yaml
    copying lib3/yaml/emitter.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/yaml
    copying lib3/yaml/composer.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/yaml
    copying lib3/yaml/loader.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/yaml
    copying lib3/yaml/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/yaml
    copying lib3/yaml/dumper.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/yaml
    copying lib3/yaml/tokens.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/yaml
    copying lib3/yaml/constructor.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/yaml
    copying lib3/yaml/nodes.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/yaml
    copying lib3/yaml/reader.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/yaml
    copying lib3/yaml/resolver.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/yaml
    copying lib3/yaml/parser.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/yaml
    copying lib3/yaml/serializer.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/yaml
    copying lib3/yaml/cyaml.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/yaml
    copying lib3/yaml/scanner.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/yaml
    running build_ext
    creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.4
    checking if libyaml is compilable
    x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/python3.4m -c build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.4/check_libyaml.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.4/check_libyaml.o
    checking if libyaml is linkable
    x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.4/check_libyaml.o -lyaml -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.4/check_libyaml
    building '_yaml' extension
    creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.4/ext
    x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/python3.4m -c ext/_yaml.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.4/ext/_yaml.o
    ext/_yaml.c:4:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
     #include "Python.h"
                        ^
    compilation terminated.
    error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

    ----------------------------------------
Command "/usr/bin/python3.4 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-wd2m_by7/pyyaml/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-ulirskuk-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-wd2m_by7/pyyaml/

The Fix

The AWS docs says to run this command

RUN apt-get -y install python curl unzip

Need to use python-dev instead of python

RUN apt-get -y install python-dev curl unzip