iam_policy - Manage IAM policies for users, groups, and roles

• Synopsis
• Requirements (on host that executes module)
• Options
• Examples
• Notes
  • Status

Synopsis

• Allows uploading or removing IAM policies for IAM users, groups or roles.

Requirements (on host that executes module)

• python >= 2.6
• boto

Options

Examples

# Create a policy with the name of 'Admin' to the group 'administrators'
tasks:
- name: Assign a policy called Admin to the administrators group
  iam_policy:
    iam_type: group
    iam_name: administrators
    policy_name: Admin
    state: present
    policy_document: admin_policy.json

# Advanced example, create two new groups and add a READ-ONLY policy to both
# groups.
task:
- name: Create Two Groups, Mario and Luigi
  iam:
    iam_type: group
    name: "{{ item }}"
    state: present
  with_items:
     - Mario
     - Luigi
  register: new_groups

- name: Apply READ-ONLY policy to new groups that have been recently created
  iam_policy:
    iam_type: group
    iam_name: "{{ item.created_group.group_name }}"
    policy_name: "READ-ONLY"
    policy_document: readonlypolicy.json
    state: present
  with_items: "{{ new_groups.results }}"

# Create a new S3 policy with prefix per user
tasks:
- name: Create S3 policy from template
  iam_policy:
    iam_type: user
    iam_name: "{{ item.user }}"
    policy_name: "s3_limited_access_{{ item.prefix }}"
    state: present
    policy_json: " {{ lookup( 'template', 's3_policy.json.j2') }} "
    with_items:
      - user: s3_user
        prefix: s3_user_prefix

Notes

Status

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

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