iam_policy – Manage IAM policies for users, groups, and roles

Synopsis

  • Allows uploading or removing IAM policies for IAM users, groups or roles.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • python >= 2.6

  • boto

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
aws_access_key
string
AWS access key. If not set then the value of the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable is used.

aliases: ec2_access_key, access_key
aws_secret_key
string
AWS secret key. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY, or EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variable is used.

aliases: ec2_secret_key, secret_key
debug_botocore_endpoint_logs
boolean
added in 2.8
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Use a botocore.endpoint logger to parse the unique (rather than total) "resource:action" API calls made during a task, outputing the set to the resource_actions key in the task results. Use the aws_resource_action callback to output to total list made during a playbook. The ANSIBLE_DEBUG_BOTOCORE_LOGS environment variable may also be used.
ec2_url
string
Url to use to connect to EC2 or your Eucalyptus cloud (by default the module will use EC2 endpoints). Ignored for modules where region is required. Must be specified for all other modules if region is not used. If not set then the value of the EC2_URL environment variable, if any, is used.
iam_name
- / required
Name of IAM resource you wish to target for policy actions. In other words, the user name, group name or role name.
iam_type
- / required
    Choices:
  • user
  • group
  • role
Type of IAM resource
policy_document
-
The path to the properly json formatted policy file (mutually exclusive with policy_json)
policy_json
-
A properly json formatted policy as string (mutually exclusive with policy_document, see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/7005#issuecomment-42894813 on how to use it properly)
policy_name
- / required
The name label for the policy to create or remove.
profile
string
Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto >= 2.24.0.
region
string
The AWS region to use. If not specified then the value of the AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION environment variable, if any, is used. See
aliases: aws_region, ec2_region
security_token
string
AWS STS security token. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variable is used.

aliases: access_token
skip_duplicates
-
Default:
"/"
By default the module looks for any policies that match the document you pass in, if there is a match it will not make a new policy object with the same rules. You can override this by specifying false which would allow for two policy objects with different names but same rules.
state
- / required
    Choices:
  • present
  • absent
Whether to create or delete the IAM policy.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
When set to "no", SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.

Notes

Note

  • Currently boto does not support the removal of Managed Policies, the module will not work removing/adding managed policies.

  • If parameters are not set within the module, the following environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence AWS_URL or EC2_URL, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID or AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY or AWS_SECRET_KEY or EC2_SECRET_KEY, AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN, AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION

  • Ansible uses the boto configuration file (typically ~/.boto) if no credentials are provided. See https://boto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html

  • AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION can be typically be used to specify the AWS region, when required, but this can also be configured in the boto config file

Examples

# Create a policy with the name of 'Admin' to the group 'administrators'
- name: Assign a policy called Admin to the administrators group
  iam_policy:
    iam_type: group
    iam_name: administrators
    policy_name: Admin
    state: present
    policy_document: admin_policy.json

# Advanced example, create two new groups and add a READ-ONLY policy to both
# groups.
- name: Create Two Groups, Mario and Luigi
  iam:
    iam_type: group
    name: "{{ item }}"
    state: present
  loop:
     - Mario
     - Luigi
  register: new_groups

- name: Apply READ-ONLY policy to new groups that have been recently created
  iam_policy:
    iam_type: group
    iam_name: "{{ item.created_group.group_name }}"
    policy_name: "READ-ONLY"
    policy_document: readonlypolicy.json
    state: present
  loop: "{{ new_groups.results }}"

# Create a new S3 policy with prefix per user
- name: Create S3 policy from template
  iam_policy:
    iam_type: user
    iam_name: "{{ item.user }}"
    policy_name: "s3_limited_access_{{ item.prefix }}"
    state: present
    policy_json: " {{ lookup( 'template', 's3_policy.json.j2') }} "
    loop:
      - user: s3_user
        prefix: s3_user_prefix

Status

Authors

  • Jonathan I. Davila (@defionscode)

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