community.aws.aws_ses_identity – Manages SES email and domain identity

Note

This plugin is part of the community.aws collection (version 1.5.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.aws.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.aws.aws_ses_identity.

New in version 1.0.0: of community.aws

Synopsis

  • This module allows the user to manage verified email and domain identity for SES.

  • This covers verifying and removing identities as well as setting up complaint, bounce and delivery notification settings.

Requirements

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

  • boto

  • boto3

  • botocore

  • python >= 2.6

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

aws_access_key

aliases: ec2_access_key, 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.

If profile is set this parameter is ignored.

Passing the aws_access_key and profile options at the same time has been deprecated and the options will be made mutually exclusive after 2022-06-01.

aws_ca_bundle

path

The location of a CA Bundle to use when validating SSL certificates.

Only used for boto3 based modules.

Note: The CA Bundle is read ‘module’ side and may need to be explicitly copied from the controller if not run locally.

aws_config

dictionary

A dictionary to modify the botocore configuration.

Parameters can be found at 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 http://boto.cloudhackers.com/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html#boto for more boto configuration.

aws_secret_key

aliases: ec2_secret_key, 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.

If profile is set this parameter is ignored.

Passing the aws_secret_key and profile options at the same time has been deprecated and the options will be made mutually exclusive after 2022-06-01.

bounce_notifications

dictionary

Setup the SNS topic used to report bounce notifications.

If omitted, bounce notifications will not be delivered to a SNS topic.

If bounce notifications are not delivered to a SNS topic, feedback_forwarding must be enabled.

include_headers

boolean

Whether or not to include headers when delivering to the SNS topic.

If topic is not specified this will have no impact, but the SES setting is updated even if there is no topic.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

topic

string

The ARN of the topic to send notifications to.

If omitted, notifications will not be delivered to a SNS topic.

complaint_notifications

dictionary

Setup the SNS topic used to report complaint notifications.

If omitted, complaint notifications will not be delivered to a SNS topic.

If complaint notifications are not delivered to a SNS topic, feedback_forwarding must be enabled.

include_headers

boolean

Whether or not to include headers when delivering to the SNS topic.

If topic is not specified this will have no impact, but the SES setting is updated even if there is no topic.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

topic

string

The ARN of the topic to send notifications to.

If omitted, notifications will not be delivered to a SNS topic.

debug_botocore_endpoint_logs

boolean

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.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

delivery_notifications

dictionary

Setup the SNS topic used to report delivery notifications.

If omitted, delivery notifications will not be delivered to a SNS topic.

include_headers

boolean

Whether or not to include headers when delivering to the SNS topic.

If topic is not specified this will have no impact, but the SES setting is updated even if there is no topic.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

topic

string

The ARN of the topic to send notifications to.

If omitted, notifications will not be delivered to a SNS topic.

ec2_url

aliases: aws_endpoint_url, endpoint_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.

feedback_forwarding

boolean

Whether or not to enable feedback forwarding.

This can only be false if both bounce_notifications and complaint_notifications specify SNS topics.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

identity

string / required

This is the email address or domain to verify / delete.

If this contains an ‘@’ then it will be considered an email. Otherwise it will be considered a domain.

profile

aliases: aws_profile

string

Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto >= 2.24.0.

Using profile will override aws_access_key, aws_secret_key and security_token and support for passing them at the same time as profile has been deprecated.

aws_access_key, aws_secret_key and security_token will be made mutually exclusive with profile after 2022-06-01.

region

aliases: aws_region, ec2_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 http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region

security_token

aliases: aws_security_token, access_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.

If profile is set this parameter is ignored.

Passing the security_token and profile options at the same time has been deprecated and the options will be made mutually exclusive after 2022-06-01.

state

string

Whether to create(or update) or delete the identity.

Choices:

  • present ← (default)

  • absent

validate_certs

boolean

When set to “no”, SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

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_PROFILE or AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE, 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, AWS_CA_BUNDLE

  • 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

# Note: These examples do not set authentication details, see the AWS Guide for details.

- name: Ensure [email protected] email identity exists
  community.aws.aws_ses_identity:
    identity: [email protected]
    state: present

- name: Delete [email protected] email identity
  community.aws.aws_ses_identity:
    email: [email protected]
    state: absent

- name: Ensure example.com domain identity exists
  community.aws.aws_ses_identity:
    identity: example.com
    state: present

# Create an SNS topic and send bounce and complaint notifications to it
# instead of emailing the identity owner
- name: Ensure complaints-topic exists
  community.aws.sns_topic:
    name: "complaints-topic"
    state: present
    purge_subscriptions: False
  register: topic_info

- name: Deliver feedback to topic instead of owner email
  community.aws.aws_ses_identity:
    identity: [email protected]
    state: present
    complaint_notifications:
      topic: "{{ topic_info.sns_arn }}"
      include_headers: True
    bounce_notifications:
      topic: "{{ topic_info.sns_arn }}"
      include_headers: False
    feedback_forwarding: False

# Create an SNS topic for delivery notifications and leave complaints
# Being forwarded to the identity owner email
- name: Ensure delivery-notifications-topic exists
  community.aws.sns_topic:
    name: "delivery-notifications-topic"
    state: present
    purge_subscriptions: False
  register: topic_info

- name: Delivery notifications to topic
  community.aws.aws_ses_identity:
    identity: [email protected]
    state: present
    delivery_notifications:
      topic: "{{ topic_info.sns_arn }}"

Return Values

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

Key

Description

identity

string

The identity being modified.

Returned: success

Sample:example@example.com

identity_arn

string

The arn of the identity being modified.

Returned: success

Sample: “arn:aws:ses:us-east-1:12345678:identity/example@example.com”

notification_attributes

complex

The notification setup for the identity.

Returned: success

Sample: {“bounce_topic”: “arn:aws:sns:….”, “complaint_topic”: “arn:aws:sns:….”, “delivery_topic”: “arn:aws:sns:….”, “forwarding_enabled”: false, “headers_in_bounce_notifications_enabled”: true, “headers_in_complaint_notifications_enabled”: true, “headers_in_delivery_notifications_enabled”: true}

bounce_topic

string

The ARN of the topic bounce notifications are delivered to.

Omitted if bounce notifications are not delivered to a topic.

Returned: success

complaint_topic

string

The ARN of the topic complaint notifications are delivered to.

Omitted if complaint notifications are not delivered to a topic.

Returned: success

delivery_topic

string

The ARN of the topic delivery notifications are delivered to.

Omitted if delivery notifications are not delivered to a topic.

Returned: success

forwarding_enabled

boolean

Whether or not feedback forwarding is enabled.

Returned: success

headers_in_bounce_notifications_enabled

boolean

Whether or not headers are included in messages delivered to the bounce topic.

Returned: success

headers_in_complaint_notifications_enabled

boolean

Whether or not headers are included in messages delivered to the complaint topic.

Returned: success

headers_in_delivery_notifications_enabled

boolean

Whether or not headers are included in messages delivered to the delivery topic.

Returned: success

verification_attributes

complex

The verification information for the identity.

Returned: success

Sample: {“verification_status”: “Pending”, “verification_token”: “….”}

verification_status

string

The verification status of the identity.

Returned: success

Sample: “Pending”

verification_token

string

The verification token for a domain identity.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Ed Costello (@orthanc)