This component is responsible for creating AWS SSO Permission Sets and creating AWS SSO Account Assignments, that is, assigning IdP (Okta) groups and/or users to AWS SSO permission sets in specific AWS Accounts.
This component assumes that AWS SSO has already been enabled via the AWS Console (there isn't terraform or AWS CLI support for this currently) and that the IdP has been configured to sync users and groups to AWS SSO.
- Go to root admin account
- Select primary region
- Go to AWS SSO
- Enable AWS SSO
Previously, Cloud Posse recommended delegating SSO to the identity account by following the next 2 steps:
- Click Settings > Management
- Delegate Identity as an administrator. This can take up to 30 minutes to take effect.
However, this is no longer recommended. Because the delegated SSO administrator cannot make changes in the root
account and this component needs to be able to make changes in the root
account, any purported security advantage
achieved by delegating SSO to the identity
account is lost.
Nevertheless, it is also not worth the effort to remove the delegation. If you have already delegated SSO to the
identity
, continue on, leaving the stack configuration in the gbl-identity
stack rather than the currently
recommended gbl-root
stack.
Important
Your identity source is currently configured as 'External identity provider'. To add new groups or edit their memberships, you must do this using your external identity provider.
Groups cannot be created with ClickOps in the AWS console and instead must be created with AWS API.
Google Workspace is now supported by AWS Identity Center, but Group creation is not automatically handled. After
configuring SAML and SCIM with Google Workspace and IAM Identity Center following the AWS documentation,
add any Group name to var.groups
to create the Group with Terraform. Once the setup steps as described in the AWS
documentation have been completed and the Groups are created with Terraform, Users should automatically populate each
created Group.
components:
terraform:
aws-sso:
vars:
groups:
- "Developers"
- "Dev Ops"
Stack Level: Global Deployment: Must be deployed by root-admin using atmos
CLI
Add catalog to gbl-root
root stack.
The account_assignments
setting configures access to permission sets for users and groups in accounts, in the
following structure:
<account-name>:
groups:
<group-name>:
permission_sets:
- <permission-set-name>
users:
<user-name>:
permission_sets:
- <permission-set-name>
- The account names (a.k.a. "stages") must already be configured via the
accounts
component. - The user and group names must already exist in AWS SSO. Usually this is accomplished by configuring them in Okta and syncing Okta with AWS SSO.
- The permission sets are defined (by convention) in files names
policy-<permission-set-name>.tf
in theaws-sso
component. The definition includes the name of the permission set. Seecomponents/terraform/aws-sso/policy-AdminstratorAccess.tf
for an example.
The identity_roles_accessible
element provides a list of role names corresponding to roles created in the
iam-primary-roles
component. For each named role, a corresponding permission set will be created which allows the user
to assume that role. The permission set name is generated in Terraform from the role name using this statement:
format("Identity%sTeamAccess", replace(title(role), "-", ""))
-
Give the permission set a name, capitalized, in CamelCase, e.g.
AuditManager
. We will useNAME
as a placeholder for the name in the instructions below. In Terraform, convert the name to lowercase snake case, e.g.audit_manager
. -
Create a file in the
aws-sso
directory with the namepolicy-NAME.tf
. -
In that file, create a policy as follows:
data "aws_iam_policy_document" "TerraformUpdateAccess" { # Define the custom policy here } locals { NAME_permission_set = { # e.g. audit_manager_permission_set name = "NAME", # e.g. AuditManager description = "<description>", relay_state = "", session_duration = "PT1H", # One hour, maximum allowed for chained assumed roles tags = {}, inline_policy = data.aws_iam_policy_document.NAME.json, policy_attachments = [] # ARNs of AWS managed IAM policies to attach, e.g. arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/ReadOnlyAccess customer_managed_policy_attachments = [] # ARNs of customer managed IAM policies to attach } }
-
Create a file named
additional-permission-sets-list_override.tf
in theaws-sso
directory (if it does not already exist). This is a terraform override file, meaning its contents will be merged with the main terraform file, and any locals defined in it will override locals defined in other files. Having your code in this separate override file makes it possible for the component to provide a placeholder local variable so that it works without customization, while allowing you to customize the component and still update it without losing your customizations. -
In that file, redefine the local variable
overridable_additional_permission_sets
as follows:locals { overridable_additional_permission_sets = [ local.NAME_permission_set, ] }
If you have multiple custom policies, add each one to the list.
-
With that done, the new permission set will be created when the changes are applied. You can then use it just like the others.
-
If you want the permission set to be able to use Terraform, enable access to the Terraform state read/write (default) role in
tfstate-backend
.
The example snippet below shows how to use this module with various combinations (plain YAML, YAML Anchors and a combination of the two):
prod-cloud-engineers: &prod-cloud-engineers
Production Cloud Infrastructure Engineers:
permission_sets:
- AdministratorAccess
- ReadOnlyAccess
components:
terraform:
aws-sso:
vars:
account_assignments:
audit:
groups:
<<: *prod-cloud-engineers
Production Cloud Engineers:
permission_sets:
- ReadOnlyAccess
corp:
groups: *prod-cloud-engineers
prod:
groups:
Administrators:
permission_sets:
- AdministratorAccess
- ReadOnlyAccess
Developers:
permission_sets:
- ReadOnlyAccess
dev:
groups:
Administrators:
permission_sets:
- AdministratorAccess
- ReadOnlyAccess
Developers:
permission_sets:
- AdministratorAccess
- ReadOnlyAccess
aws_teams_accessible:
- "developers"
- "devops"
- "managers"
- "support"
Name | Version |
---|---|
terraform | >= 1.0.0 |
aws | >= 4.0 |
Name | Version |
---|---|
aws | >= 4.0 |
Name | Source | Version |
---|---|---|
account_map | cloudposse/stack-config/yaml//modules/remote-state | 1.5.0 |
iam_roles | ../account-map/modules/iam-roles | n/a |
iam_roles_root | ../account-map/modules/iam-roles | n/a |
permission_sets | cloudposse/sso/aws//modules/permission-sets | 1.1.1 |
role_map | ../account-map/modules/roles-to-principals | n/a |
sso_account_assignments | cloudposse/sso/aws//modules/account-assignments | 1.1.1 |
sso_account_assignments_root | cloudposse/sso/aws//modules/account-assignments | 1.1.1 |
tfstate | cloudposse/stack-config/yaml//modules/remote-state | 1.5.0 |
this | cloudposse/label/null | 0.25.0 |
Name | Type |
---|---|
aws_identitystore_group.manual | resource |
aws_iam_policy_document.assume_aws_team | data source |
aws_iam_policy_document.dns_administrator_access | data source |
aws_iam_policy_document.eks_read_only | data source |
aws_iam_policy_document.terraform_update_access | data source |
aws_partition.current | data source |
aws_ssoadmin_instances.this | data source |
Name | Description | Type | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
account_assignments | Enables access to permission sets for users and groups in accounts, in the following structure:yaml |
map(map(map(object({ |
{} |
no |
additional_tag_map | Additional key-value pairs to add to each map in tags_as_list_of_maps . Not added to tags or id .This is for some rare cases where resources want additional configuration of tags and therefore take a list of maps with tag key, value, and additional configuration. |
map(string) |
{} |
no |
attributes | ID element. Additional attributes (e.g. workers or cluster ) to add to id ,in the order they appear in the list. New attributes are appended to the end of the list. The elements of the list are joined by the delimiter and treated as a single ID element. |
list(string) |
[] |
no |
aws_teams_accessible | List of IAM roles (e.g. ["admin", "terraform"]) for which to create permission sets that allow the user to assume that role. Named like admin -> IdentityAdminTeamAccess |
set(string) |
[] |
no |
context | Single object for setting entire context at once. See description of individual variables for details. Leave string and numeric variables as null to use default value.Individual variable settings (non-null) override settings in context object, except for attributes, tags, and additional_tag_map, which are merged. |
any |
{ |
no |
delimiter | Delimiter to be used between ID elements. Defaults to - (hyphen). Set to "" to use no delimiter at all. |
string |
null |
no |
descriptor_formats | Describe additional descriptors to be output in the descriptors output map.Map of maps. Keys are names of descriptors. Values are maps of the form {<br/> format = string<br/> labels = list(string)<br/>} (Type is any so the map values can later be enhanced to provide additional options.)format is a Terraform format string to be passed to the format() function.labels is a list of labels, in order, to pass to format() function.Label values will be normalized before being passed to format() so they will beidentical to how they appear in id .Default is {} (descriptors output will be empty). |
any |
{} |
no |
enabled | Set to false to prevent the module from creating any resources | bool |
null |
no |
environment | ID element. Usually used for region e.g. 'uw2', 'us-west-2', OR role 'prod', 'staging', 'dev', 'UAT' | string |
null |
no |
groups | List of AWS Identity Center Groups to be created with the AWS API. When provisioning the Google Workspace Integration with AWS, Groups need to be created with API in order for automatic provisioning to work as intended. |
list(string) |
[] |
no |
id_length_limit | Limit id to this many characters (minimum 6).Set to 0 for unlimited length.Set to null for keep the existing setting, which defaults to 0 .Does not affect id_full . |
number |
null |
no |
label_key_case | Controls the letter case of the tags keys (label names) for tags generated by this module.Does not affect keys of tags passed in via the tags input.Possible values: lower , title , upper .Default value: title . |
string |
null |
no |
label_order | The order in which the labels (ID elements) appear in the id .Defaults to ["namespace", "environment", "stage", "name", "attributes"]. You can omit any of the 6 labels ("tenant" is the 6th), but at least one must be present. |
list(string) |
null |
no |
label_value_case | Controls the letter case of ID elements (labels) as included in id ,set as tag values, and output by this module individually. Does not affect values of tags passed in via the tags input.Possible values: lower , title , upper and none (no transformation).Set this to title and set delimiter to "" to yield Pascal Case IDs.Default value: lower . |
string |
null |
no |
labels_as_tags | Set of labels (ID elements) to include as tags in the tags output.Default is to include all labels. Tags with empty values will not be included in the tags output.Set to [] to suppress all generated tags.Notes: The value of the name tag, if included, will be the id , not the name .Unlike other null-label inputs, the initial setting of labels_as_tags cannot bechanged in later chained modules. Attempts to change it will be silently ignored. |
set(string) |
[ |
no |
name | ID element. Usually the component or solution name, e.g. 'app' or 'jenkins'. This is the only ID element not also included as a tag .The "name" tag is set to the full id string. There is no tag with the value of the name input. |
string |
null |
no |
namespace | ID element. Usually an abbreviation of your organization name, e.g. 'eg' or 'cp', to help ensure generated IDs are globally unique | string |
null |
no |
privileged | True if the user running the Terraform command already has access to the Terraform backend | bool |
false |
no |
regex_replace_chars | Terraform regular expression (regex) string. Characters matching the regex will be removed from the ID elements. If not set, "/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/" is used to remove all characters other than hyphens, letters and digits. |
string |
null |
no |
region | AWS Region | string |
n/a | yes |
stage | ID element. Usually used to indicate role, e.g. 'prod', 'staging', 'source', 'build', 'test', 'deploy', 'release' | string |
null |
no |
tags | Additional tags (e.g. {'BusinessUnit': 'XYZ'} ).Neither the tag keys nor the tag values will be modified by this module. |
map(string) |
{} |
no |
tenant | ID element _(Rarely used, not included by default)_. A customer identifier, indicating who this instance of a resource is for | string |
null |
no |
tfstate_environment_name | The name of the environment where tfstate-backend is provisioned. If not set, the TerraformUpdateAccess permission set will not be created. |
string |
null |
no |
Name | Description |
---|---|
group_ids | Group IDs created for Identity Center |
permission_sets | Permission sets |
sso_account_assignments | SSO account assignments |
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