ansible.builtin.iam_policy (v2.9.17) — module

Manage IAM policies for users, groups, and roles

| "added in version" 2.0 of ansible.builtin"

Authors: Jonathan I. Davila (@defionscode)

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Install Ansible via pip

Install with pip install ansible==2.9.17

Description

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


Requirements

Usage examples

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# 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
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# 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
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- 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 }}"
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
# 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

Inputs

    
state:
    choices:
    - present
    - absent
    description:
    - Whether to create or delete the IAM policy.
    required: true

region:
    aliases:
    - aws_region
    - ec2_region
    description:
    - 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 U(http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region)
    type: str

ec2_url:
    aliases:
    - aws_endpoint_url
    - endpoint_url
    description:
    - 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.
    type: str

profile:
    aliases:
    - aws_profile
    description:
    - Using I(profile) will override I(aws_access_key), I(aws_secret_key) and I(security_token)
      and support for passing them at the same time as I(profile) has been deprecated.
    - I(aws_access_key), I(aws_secret_key) and I(security_token) will be made mutually
      exclusive with I(profile) after 2022-06-01.
    type: str

iam_name:
    description:
    - Name of IAM resource you wish to target for policy actions. In other words, the
      user name, group name or role name.
    required: true

iam_type:
    choices:
    - user
    - group
    - role
    description:
    - Type of IAM resource
    required: true

aws_config:
    description:
    - A dictionary to modify the botocore configuration.
    - Parameters can be found at U(https://botocore.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/config.html#botocore.config.Config).
    - Only the 'user_agent' key is used for boto modules. See U(http://boto.cloudhackers.com/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html#boto)
      for more boto configuration.
    type: dict

policy_json:
    description:
    - A properly json formatted policy as string (mutually exclusive with C(policy_document),
      see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/7005#issuecomment-42894813 on how
      to use it properly)

policy_name:
    description:
    - The name label for the policy to create or remove.
    required: true

aws_ca_bundle:
    description:
    - The location of a CA Bundle to use when validating SSL certificates.
    - Not used by boto 2 based modules.
    - 'Note: The CA Bundle is read ''module'' side and may need to be explicitly copied
      from the controller if not run locally.'
    type: path

aws_access_key:
    aliases:
    - ec2_access_key
    - access_key
    description:
    - C(AWS access key). If not set then the value of the C(AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID), C(AWS_ACCESS_KEY)
      or C(EC2_ACCESS_KEY) environment variable is used.
    - If I(profile) is set this parameter is ignored.
    - Passing the I(aws_access_key) and I(profile) options at the same time has been deprecated
      and the options will be made mutually exclusive after 2022-06-01.
    type: str

aws_secret_key:
    aliases:
    - ec2_secret_key
    - secret_key
    description:
    - C(AWS secret key). If not set then the value of the C(AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY), C(AWS_SECRET_KEY),
      or C(EC2_SECRET_KEY) environment variable is used.
    - If I(profile) is set this parameter is ignored.
    - Passing the I(aws_secret_key) and I(profile) options at the same time has been deprecated
      and the options will be made mutually exclusive after 2022-06-01.
    type: str

security_token:
    aliases:
    - aws_security_token
    - access_token
    description:
    - C(AWS STS security token). If not set then the value of the C(AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN)
      or C(EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN) environment variable is used.
    - If I(profile) is set this parameter is ignored.
    - Passing the I(security_token) and I(profile) options at the same time has been deprecated
      and the options will be made mutually exclusive after 2022-06-01.
    type: str

validate_certs:
    default: true
    description:
    - When set to "no", SSL certificates will not be validated for communication with
      the AWS APIs.
    type: bool

policy_document:
    description:
    - The path to the properly json formatted policy file (mutually exclusive with C(policy_json))

skip_duplicates:
    default: /
    description:
    - 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.

debug_botocore_endpoint_logs:
    default: 'no'
    description:
    - 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.
    type: bool