community.aws.sts_session_token module – obtain a session token from the AWS Security Token Service
Note
This module is part of the community.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 community.aws.
You need further requirements to be able to use this module,
see Requirements for details.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.aws.sts_session_token.
New in community.aws 1.0.0
Synopsis
Obtain a session token from the AWS Security Token Service.
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
Parameter |
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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 session token. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/STS/latest/APIReference/API_GetSessionToken.html#API_GetSessionToken_RequestParameters for acceptable and default values. |
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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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The identification number of the MFA device that is associated with the user who is making the GetSessionToken call. |
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The value provided by the MFA device, if the trust policy of the user requires MFA. |
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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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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 session token in a following playbook task you must pass the access_key, secret_key and session_token parameters to modules that should use the session 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
# Note: These examples do not set authentication details, see the AWS Guide for details.
# (more details: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/STS/latest/APIReference/API_GetSessionToken.html)
- name: Get a session token
community.aws.sts_session_token:
access_key: AKIA1EXAMPLE1EXAMPLE
secret_key: 123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDE
duration_seconds: 3600
register: session_credentials
- name: Use the session token obtained above to tag an instance in account 123456789012
amazon.aws.ec2_tag:
access_key: "{{ session_credentials.sts_creds.access_key }}"
secret_key: "{{ session_credentials.sts_creds.secret_key }}"
session_token: "{{ session_credentials.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 Credentials object returned by the AWS Security Token Service Returned: always Sample: |