amazon.aws.sts_assume_role module – Assume a role using AWS Security Token Service and obtain temporary credentials
Note
This module is part of the amazon.aws collection (version 9.0.0).
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 amazon.aws.
You need further requirements to be able to use this module,
see Requirements for details.
To use it in a playbook, specify: amazon.aws.sts_assume_role.
New in community.aws 1.0.0
Synopsis
Assume a role using AWS Security Token Service and obtain temporary credentials.
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
python >= 3.6
boto3 >= 1.28.0
botocore >= 1.31.0
Parameters
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AWS access key ID. See the AWS documentation for more information about access tokens https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-sec-cred-types.html#access-keys-and-secret-access-keys. The The aws_access_key and profile options are mutually exclusive. The aws_access_key_id alias was added in release 5.1.0 for consistency with the AWS botocore SDK. The ec2_access_key alias has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Support for the |
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The location of a CA Bundle to use when validating SSL certificates. The |
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A dictionary to modify the botocore configuration. Parameters can be found in the AWS documentation https://botocore.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/config.html#botocore.config.Config. |
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Use a The Choices:
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The duration, in seconds, of the role session. The value can range from 900 seconds (15 minutes) to 43200 seconds (12 hours). The max depends on the IAM role’s sessions duration setting. By default, the value is set to |
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URL to connect to instead of the default AWS endpoints. While this can be used to connection to other AWS-compatible services the amazon.aws and community.aws collections are only tested against AWS. The The ec2_url and s3_url aliases have been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Support for the |
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A unique identifier that is used by third parties to assume a role in their customers’ accounts. |
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The identification number of the MFA device that is associated with the user who is making the AssumeRole call. |
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The value provided by the MFA device, if the trust policy of the role being assumed requires MFA. |
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Supplemental policy to use in addition to assumed role’s policies. |
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A named AWS profile to use for authentication. See the AWS documentation for more information about named profiles https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-profiles.html. The The profile option is mutually exclusive with the aws_access_key, aws_secret_key and security_token options. |
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The AWS region to use. For global services such as IAM, Route53 and CloudFront, region is ignored. The See the Amazon AWS documentation for more information http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region. The Support for the |
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The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the role that the caller is assuming https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/Using_Identifiers.html#Identifiers_ARNs. |
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Name of the role’s session - will be used by CloudTrail. |
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AWS secret access key. See the AWS documentation for more information about access tokens https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-sec-cred-types.html#access-keys-and-secret-access-keys. The The secret_key and profile options are mutually exclusive. The aws_secret_access_key alias was added in release 5.1.0 for consistency with the AWS botocore SDK. The ec2_secret_key alias has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Support for the |
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AWS STS session token for use with temporary credentials. See the AWS documentation for more information about access tokens https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-sec-cred-types.html#access-keys-and-secret-access-keys. The The security_token and profile options are mutually exclusive. Aliases aws_session_token and session_token were added in release 3.2.0, with the parameter being renamed from security_token to session_token in release 6.0.0. The security_token, aws_security_token, and access_token aliases have been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. Support for the |
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When set to Setting validate_certs=false is strongly discouraged, as an alternative, consider setting aws_ca_bundle instead. Choices:
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Notes
Note
In order to use the assumed role in a following playbook task you must pass the
access_key,secret_keyandsession_tokenparameters to modules that should use the assumed credentials.Caution: For modules, environment variables and configuration files are read from the Ansible ‘host’ context and not the ‘controller’ context. As such, files may need to be explicitly copied to the ‘host’. For lookup and connection plugins, environment variables and configuration files are read from the Ansible ‘controller’ context and not the ‘host’ context.
The AWS SDK (boto3) that Ansible uses may also read defaults for credentials and other settings, such as the region, from its configuration files in the Ansible ‘host’ context (typically
~/.aws/credentials). See https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/guide/credentials.html for more information.
Examples
# Assume an existing role (more details: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/STS/latest/APIReference/API_AssumeRole.html)
- amazon.aws.sts_assume_role:
access_key: AKIA1EXAMPLE1EXAMPLE
secret_key: 123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDE
role_arn: "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/someRole"
role_session_name: "someRoleSession"
register: assumed_role
# Use the assumed role above to tag an instance in account 123456789012
- amazon.aws.ec2_tag:
access_key: "{{ assumed_role.sts_creds.access_key }}"
secret_key: "{{ assumed_role.sts_creds.secret_key }}"
session_token: "{{ assumed_role.sts_creds.session_token }}"
resource: i-xyzxyz01
state: present
tags:
MyNewTag: value
Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
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True if obtaining the credentials succeeds. Returned: always |
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The temporary security credentials, which include an access key ID, a secret access key, and a security (or session) token. Returned: always Sample: |
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The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) and the assumed role ID. Returned: always Sample: |