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Module: iam-role

A Terraform module that creates IAM role with provided JSON IAM polices documents.

Warning​

Usage​

This example creates a role with the name eg-prod-app with permission to grant read-write access to S3 bucket, and gives permission to the entities specified in principals_arns to assume the role.


data "aws_iam_policy_document" "resource_full_access" {
  statement {
    sid       = "FullAccess"
    effect    = "Allow"
    resources = ["arn:aws:s3:::bucketname/path/*"]

    actions = [
      "s3:PutObject",
      "s3:PutObjectAcl",
      "s3:GetObject",
      "s3:DeleteObject",
      "s3:ListBucket",
      "s3:ListBucketMultipartUploads",
      "s3:GetBucketLocation",
      "s3:AbortMultipartUpload"
    ]
  }
}

data "aws_iam_policy_document" "base" {
  statement {
    sid = "BaseAccess"

    actions = [
      "s3:ListBucket",
      "s3:ListBucketVersions"
    ]

    resources = ["arn:aws:s3:::bucketname"]
    effect    = "Allow"
  }
}

module "role" {
  source = "cloudposse/iam-role/aws"
  # Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version
  # version     = "x.x.x"

  enabled   = true
  namespace = "eg"
  stage     = "prod"
  name      = "app"

  policy_description = "Allow S3 FullAccess"
  role_description   = "IAM role with permissions to perform actions on S3 resources"

  principals = {
    AWS = ["arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/workers"]
  }

  policy_documents = [
    data.aws_iam_policy_document.resource_full_access.json,
    data.aws_iam_policy_document.base.json
  ]
}

Examples​

For a complete example, see examples/complete.

For automated tests of the complete example using bats and Terratest (which tests and deploys the example on AWS), see test.

Variables​

Required Variables​

role_description (string) required

The description of the IAM role that is visible in the IAM role manager

Optional Variables​

assume_role_actions (list(string)) optional

The IAM action to be granted by the AssumeRole policy


Default value:

[
  "sts:AssumeRole",
  "sts:TagSession"
]
assume_role_conditions optional

List of conditions for the assume role policy


Type:

list(object({
test     = string
variable = string
values   = list(string)
}))

Default value: [ ]

instance_profile_enabled (bool) optional

Create EC2 Instance Profile for the role


Default value: false

managed_policy_arns (set(string)) optional

List of managed policies to attach to created role


Default value: [ ]

max_session_duration (number) optional

The maximum session duration (in seconds) for the role. Can have a value from 1 hour to 12 hours


Default value: 3600

path (string) optional

Path to the role and policy. See IAM Identifiers for more information.


Default value: "/"

permissions_boundary (string) optional

ARN of the policy that is used to set the permissions boundary for the role


Default value: ""

policy_description (string) optional

The description of the IAM policy that is visible in the IAM policy manager


Default value: ""

policy_document_count (number) optional

Number of policy documents (length of policy_documents list)


Default value: 1

policy_documents (list(string)) optional

List of JSON IAM policy documents


Default value: [ ]

policy_name (string) optional

The name of the IAM policy that is visible in the IAM policy manager


Default value: null

principals (map(list(string))) optional

Map of service name as key and a list of ARNs to allow assuming the role as value (e.g. map(AWS, list(arn:aws:iam:::role/admin)))


Default value: { }

tags_enabled (string) optional

Enable/disable tags on IAM roles and policies


Default value: true

use_fullname (bool) optional

If set to 'true' then the full ID for the IAM role name (e.g. [var.namespace]-[var.environment]-[var.stage]) will be used.


Otherwise, var.name will be used for the IAM role name.



Default value: true

Context Variables​

The following variables are defined in the context.tf file of this module and part of the terraform-null-label pattern.

additional_tag_map (map(string)) optional

Additional key-value pairs to add to each map in tags_as_list_of_maps. Not added to tags or id.
This is for some rare cases where resources want additional configuration of tags
and therefore take a list of maps with tag key, value, and additional configuration.


Required: No

Default value: { }

attributes (list(string)) optional

ID element. Additional attributes (e.g. workers or cluster) to add to id,
in the order they appear in the list. New attributes are appended to the
end of the list. The elements of the list are joined by the delimiter
and treated as a single ID element.


Required: No

Default value: [ ]

context (any) optional

Single object for setting entire context at once.
See description of individual variables for details.
Leave string and numeric variables as null to use default value.
Individual variable settings (non-null) override settings in context object,
except for attributes, tags, and additional_tag_map, which are merged.


Required: No

Default value:

{
  "additional_tag_map": {},
  "attributes": [],
  "delimiter": null,
  "descriptor_formats": {},
  "enabled": true,
  "environment": null,
  "id_length_limit": null,
  "label_key_case": null,
  "label_order": [],
  "label_value_case": null,
  "labels_as_tags": [
    "unset"
  ],
  "name": null,
  "namespace": null,
  "regex_replace_chars": null,
  "stage": null,
  "tags": {},
  "tenant": null
}
delimiter (string) optional

Delimiter to be used between ID elements.
Defaults to - (hyphen). Set to "" to use no delimiter at all.


Required: No

Default value: null

descriptor_formats (any) optional

Describe additional descriptors to be output in the descriptors output map.
Map of maps. Keys are names of descriptors. Values are maps of the form
\{<br/> format = string<br/> labels = list(string)<br/> \}
(Type is any so the map values can later be enhanced to provide additional options.)
format is a Terraform format string to be passed to the format() function.
labels is a list of labels, in order, to pass to format() function.
Label values will be normalized before being passed to format() so they will be
identical to how they appear in id.
Default is {} (descriptors output will be empty).


Required: No

Default value: { }

enabled (bool) optional

Set to false to prevent the module from creating any resources
Required: No

Default value: null

environment (string) optional

ID element. Usually used for region e.g. 'uw2', 'us-west-2', OR role 'prod', 'staging', 'dev', 'UAT'
Required: No

Default value: null

id_length_limit (number) optional

Limit id to this many characters (minimum 6).
Set to 0 for unlimited length.
Set to null for keep the existing setting, which defaults to 0.
Does not affect id_full.


Required: No

Default value: null

label_key_case (string) optional

Controls the letter case of the tags keys (label names) for tags generated by this module.
Does not affect keys of tags passed in via the tags input.
Possible values: lower, title, upper.
Default value: title.


Required: No

Default value: null

label_order (list(string)) optional

The order in which the labels (ID elements) appear in the id.
Defaults to ["namespace", "environment", "stage", "name", "attributes"].
You can omit any of the 6 labels ("tenant" is the 6th), but at least one must be present.


Required: No

Default value: null

label_value_case (string) optional

Controls the letter case of ID elements (labels) as included in id,
set as tag values, and output by this module individually.
Does not affect values of tags passed in via the tags input.
Possible values: lower, title, upper and none (no transformation).
Set this to title and set delimiter to "" to yield Pascal Case IDs.
Default value: lower.


Required: No

Default value: null

labels_as_tags (set(string)) optional

Set of labels (ID elements) to include as tags in the tags output.
Default is to include all labels.
Tags with empty values will not be included in the tags output.
Set to [] to suppress all generated tags.
Notes:
The value of the name tag, if included, will be the id, not the name.
Unlike other null-label inputs, the initial setting of labels_as_tags cannot be
changed in later chained modules. Attempts to change it will be silently ignored.


Required: No

Default value:

[
  "default"
]
name (string) optional

ID element. Usually the component or solution name, e.g. 'app' or 'jenkins'.
This is the only ID element not also included as a tag.
The "name" tag is set to the full id string. There is no tag with the value of the name input.


Required: No

Default value: null

namespace (string) optional

ID element. Usually an abbreviation of your organization name, e.g. 'eg' or 'cp', to help ensure generated IDs are globally unique
Required: No

Default value: null

regex_replace_chars (string) optional

Terraform regular expression (regex) string.
Characters matching the regex will be removed from the ID elements.
If not set, "/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/" is used to remove all characters other than hyphens, letters and digits.


Required: No

Default value: null

stage (string) optional

ID element. Usually used to indicate role, e.g. 'prod', 'staging', 'source', 'build', 'test', 'deploy', 'release'
Required: No

Default value: null

tags (map(string)) optional

Additional tags (e.g. {'BusinessUnit': 'XYZ'}).
Neither the tag keys nor the tag values will be modified by this module.


Required: No

Default value: { }

tenant (string) optional

ID element (Rarely used, not included by default). A customer identifier, indicating who this instance of a resource is for
Required: No

Default value: null

Outputs​

arn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) specifying the role

id

The stable and unique string identifying the role

instance_profile

Name of the ec2 profile (if enabled)

name

The name of the IAM role created

policy

Role policy document in json format. Outputs always, independent of enabled variable

Dependencies​

Requirements​

  • terraform, version: >= 0.13.0
  • aws, version: >= 2.0

Providers​

  • aws, version: >= 2.0

Modules​

NameVersionSourceDescription
role_name0.25.0cloudposse/label/nulln/a
this0.25.0cloudposse/label/nulln/a

Resources​

The following resources are used by this module:

Data Sources​

The following data sources are used by this module: