Terraform module to provision an IAM role with configurable permissions to access SSM Parameter Store.

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For more information on how to control access to Systems Manager parameters by using AWS Identity and Access Management, see Controlling Access to Systems Manager Parameters.

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NOTE: This module can be used to provision IAM roles with SSM permissions for chamber.

This example creates a role with the name cp-prod-app-all with permission to read all SSM parameters, and gives permission to the entities specified in assume_role_arns to assume the role.

module "ssm_iam_role" {
  source           = "git::https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-ssm-iam-role.git?ref=master"
  namespace        = "cp"
  stage            = "prod"
  name             = "app"
  attributes       = ["all"]
  region           = "us-west-2"
  account_id       = "XXXXXXXXXXX"
  assume_role_arns = ["arn:aws:xxxxxxxxxx", "arn:aws:yyyyyyyyyyyy"]
  kms_key_arn      = "arn:aws:kms:us-west-2:123454095951:key/aced568e-3375-4ece-85e5-b35abc46c243"
  ssm_parameters   = ["*"]
  ssm_actions      = ["ssm:GetParametersByPath", "ssm:GetParameters"]
}

This example creates a role with the name cp-prod-app-secrets with permission to read the SSM parameters that begin with secret-, and gives permission to the entities specified in assume_role_arns to assume the role.

module "ssm_iam_role" {
  source           = "git::https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-ssm-iam-role.git?ref=master"
  namespace        = "cp"
  stage            = "prod"
  name             = "app"
  attributes       = ["secrets"]
  region           = "us-west-2"
  account_id       = "XXXXXXXXXXX"
  assume_role_arns = ["arn:aws:xxxxxxxxxx", "arn:aws:yyyyyyyyyyyy"]
  kms_key_arn      = "arn:aws:kms:us-west-2:123454095951:key/aced568e-3375-4ece-85e5-b35abc46c243"
  ssm_parameters   = ["secret-*"]
  ssm_actions      = ["ssm:GetParameters"]
}

This example:

• Provisions a KMS key to encrypt SSM Parameter Store secrets using terraform-aws-kms-key module
• Performs Kops cluster lookup to find the ARNs of masters and nodes by using terraform-aws-kops-metadata module
• Creates a role with the name cp-prod-chamber-kops with permission to read all SSM parameters from the path kops, and gives permission to the Kops masters and nodes to assume the role

module "kms_key" {
  source      = "git::https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-kms-key.git?ref=master"
  namespace   = "cp"
  stage       = "prod"
  name        = "chamber"
  description = "KMS key for SSM"
}

module "kops_metadata" {
  source       = "git::https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-kops-metadata.git?ref=master"
  dns_zone     = "us-west-2.prod.cloudposse.co"
  masters_name = "masters"
  nodes_name   = "nodes"
}

module "ssm_iam_role" {
  source           = "git::https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-ssm-iam-role.git?ref=master"
  namespace        = "cp"
  stage            = "prod"
  name             = "chamber"
  attributes       = ["kops"]
  region           = "us-west-2"
  account_id       = "XXXXXXXXXXX"
  assume_role_arns = ["${module.kops_metadata.masters_role_arn}", "${module.kops_metadata.nodes_role_arn}"]
  kms_key_arn      = "${module.kms_key.key_arn}"
  ssm_parameters   = ["kops/*"]
  ssm_actions      = ["ssm:GetParametersByPath", "ssm:GetParameters"]
}

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No requirements.

[
  "ssm:GetParametersByPath",
  "ssm:GetParameters"
]

Check out these related projects.

• terraform-aws-ssm-parameter-store - Terraform module to populate AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Parameter Store with values from Terraform. Works great with Chamber.
• terraform-aws-ssm-parameter-store-policy-documents - A Terraform module that generates JSON documents for access for common AWS SSM Parameter Store policies
• terraform-aws-iam-chamber-user - Terraform module to provision a basic IAM chamber user with access to SSM parameters and KMS key to decrypt secrets, suitable for CI/CD systems (e.g. TravisCI, CircleCI, CodeFresh) or systems which are external to AWS that cannot leverage AWS IAM Instance Profiles

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