iam_user – Manage AWS IAM users

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status

Synopsis

• Manage AWS IAM users

Requirements

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

• boto
• boto3
• botocore
• python >= 2.6

Parameters

Notes

Examples

# Note: These examples do not set authentication details, see the AWS Guide for details.
# Note: This module does not allow management of groups that users belong to.
#       Groups should manage their membership directly using `iam_group`,
#       as users belong to them.

# Create a user
- iam_user:
    name: testuser1
    state: present

# Create a user and attach a managed policy using its ARN
- iam_user:
    name: testuser1
    managed_policy:
      - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonSNSFullAccess
    state: present

# Remove all managed policies from an existing user with an empty list
- iam_user:
    name: testuser1
    state: present
    purge_policy: true

# Delete the user
- iam_user:
    name: testuser1
    state: absent

Return Values

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

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Josh Souza (@joshsouza)