iam_managed_policy – Manage User Managed IAM policies

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis

  • Allows creating and removing managed IAM policies

Requirements

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

  • boto
  • boto3
  • botocore
  • python >= 2.6

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
aws_access_key
-
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
-
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
ec2_url
-
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.
make_default
-
Default:
"yes"
Make this revision the default revision.
only_version
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Remove all other non default revisions, if this is used with make_default it will result in all other versions of this policy being deleted.
policy
-
A properly json formatted policy
policy_description
-
Default:
""
A helpful description of this policy, this value is immuteable and only set when creating a new policy.
policy_name
- / required
The name of the managed policy.
profile
-
added in 1.6
Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto >= 2.24.0.
region
-
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 http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region

aliases: aws_region, ec2_region
security_token
-
added in 1.6
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
state
-
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Should this managed policy be present or absent. Set to absent to detach all entities from this policy and remove it if found.
validate_certs
boolean
added in 1.5
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
When set to "no", SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.

Notes

Note

  • 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 Policy ex nihilo
- name: Create IAM Managed Policy
  iam_managed_policy:
    policy_name: "ManagedPolicy"
    policy_description: "A Helpful managed policy"
    policy: "{{ lookup('template', 'managed_policy.json.j2') }}"
    state: present

# Update a policy with a new default version
- name: Create IAM Managed Policy
  iam_managed_policy:
    policy_name: "ManagedPolicy"
    policy: "{{ lookup('file', 'managed_policy_update.json') }}"
    state: present

# Update a policy with a new non default version
- name: Create IAM Managed Policy
  iam_managed_policy:
    policy_name: "ManagedPolicy"
    policy: "{{ lookup('file', 'managed_policy_update.json') }}"
    make_default: false
    state: present

# Update a policy and make it the only version and the default version
- name: Create IAM Managed Policy
  iam_managed_policy:
    policy_name: "ManagedPolicy"
    policy: "{ 'Version': '2012-10-17', 'Statement':[{'Effect': 'Allow','Action': '*','Resource': '*'}]}"
    only_version: true
    state: present

# Remove a policy
- name: Create IAM Managed Policy
  iam_managed_policy:
    policy_name: "ManagedPolicy"
    state: absent

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
policy
string
 success
Returns the policy json structure, when state == absent this will return the value of the removed policy.

Sample:
{ "arn": "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AdministratorAccess " "attachment_count": 0, "create_date": "2017-03-01T15:42:55.981000+00:00", "default_version_id": "v1", "is_attachable": true, "path": "/", "policy_id": "ANPALM4KLDMTFXGOOJIHL", "policy_name": "AdministratorAccess", "update_date": "2017-03-01T15:42:55.981000+00:00" }


Status

  • This module is guaranteed to have no backward incompatible interface changes going forward. [stableinterface]
  • This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

  • Dan Kozlowski (@dkhenry)

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