@aws-cdk/aws-iam
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CDK routines for easily assigning correct and minimal IAM permissions
Package description
@aws-cdk/aws-iam is an AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) library that allows you to define AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) resources in your CDK applications. This package provides constructs for creating and managing IAM roles, users, policies, and groups, enabling you to manage permissions and access control in your AWS environment programmatically.
Create IAM Role
This code sample demonstrates how to create an IAM role that can be assumed by EC2 instances and has read-only access to Amazon S3.
const iam = require('@aws-cdk/aws-iam');
const cdk = require('@aws-cdk/core');
class MyStack extends cdk.Stack {
constructor(scope, id, props) {
super(scope, id, props);
new iam.Role(this, 'MyRole', {
assumedBy: new iam.ServicePrincipal('ec2.amazonaws.com'),
managedPolicies: [
iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName('AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess')
]
});
}
}
const app = new cdk.App();
new MyStack(app, 'MyStack');Create IAM User
This code sample demonstrates how to create an IAM user with administrator access.
const iam = require('@aws-cdk/aws-iam');
const cdk = require('@aws-cdk/core');
class MyStack extends cdk.Stack {
constructor(scope, id, props) {
super(scope, id, props);
new iam.User(this, 'MyUser', {
userName: 'my-user',
managedPolicies: [
iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName('AdministratorAccess')
]
});
}
}
const app = new cdk.App();
new MyStack(app, 'MyStack');Attach Inline Policy to Role
This code sample demonstrates how to create an IAM role and attach an inline policy that allows listing objects in a specific S3 bucket.
const iam = require('@aws-cdk/aws-iam');
const cdk = require('@aws-cdk/core');
class MyStack extends cdk.Stack {
constructor(scope, id, props) {
super(scope, id, props);
const role = new iam.Role(this, 'MyRole', {
assumedBy: new iam.ServicePrincipal('lambda.amazonaws.com')
});
role.addToPolicy(new iam.PolicyStatement({
actions: ['s3:ListBucket'],
resources: ['arn:aws:s3:::my-bucket']
}));
}
}
const app = new cdk.App();
new MyStack(app, 'MyStack');The aws-sdk package is the official AWS SDK for JavaScript, which allows you to interact with AWS services, including IAM, using JavaScript. Unlike @aws-cdk/aws-iam, which is used for defining and deploying AWS infrastructure, aws-sdk is used for making API calls to AWS services.
The serverless framework is a toolkit for deploying and operating serverless architectures, including AWS Lambda functions and associated IAM roles and policies. It provides a higher-level abstraction compared to @aws-cdk/aws-iam and is focused on serverless applications.
Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services, including AWS IAM. It is similar to @aws-cdk/aws-iam in that it allows you to define and manage AWS infrastructure, but it is not limited to AWS and supports multiple cloud providers.
Changelog
0.11.0 (2018-10-11)
IMPORTANT NOTE: This release includes a breaking change in the toolkit <=> app protocol. This means that in order to synthesize CDK apps that use this version, the globally installed CDK toolkit must also be updated:
$ npm i -g aws-cdk
$ cdk --version
0.11.0 (build ...)
Like always, you will also need to update your project's library versions:
Language | Update?
--------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
JavaScript/TypeScript (npm) | npx npm-check-updates -u
Java (maven) | mvn versions:use-latest-versions
.NET (NuGet) | nuget update
framework: The cdk.App constructor doesn't accept any arguments, and app.run() does not return a string anymore. All AWS CDK apps in all languages would need to be modified to adhere to the new API of the cdk.App construct.
Instead of:
const app = new App(process.argv); // ERROR
// add stacks
process.stdout.write(app.run()); // ERROR
The new usage is:
const app = new App();
// add stacks
app.run();
framework: The CDK is no longer shipped with built-in support for JSX. You can still use JSX but you will have to manually configure it.
aws-iam: PolicyDocument, PolicyStatement and all PolicyPrincipal classes moved from the @aws-cdk/cdk module and into the @aws-cdk/aws-iam module.
aws-codepipeline-api: Artifact.subartifact method of the CodePipeline API was renamed to Artifact.atPath.
constructor signature of TagManager has changed. initialTags is now passed inside a props object.
util: @aws-cdk/util is no longer available
aws-elasticloadbalancingv2: Adds classes for modeling Application and Network Load Balancers. AutoScalingGroups now implement the interface that makes constructs a load balancing target. The breaking change is that Security Group rule identifiers have been changed in order to make adding rules more reliable. No code changes are necessary but existing deployments may experience unexpected changes.
aws-cloudformation: this renames all CloudFormation Actions for CodePipeline to bring them in line with Actions defined in other service packages.
aws-codepipeline, aws-codecommit, aws-s3: change the names of the source Actions from XxxSource to XxxSourceAction. This is to align them with the other Actions, like Build. Also, CodeBuild has the concept of Sources, so it makes sense to strongly differentiate between the two.
Readme
Define a role and add permissions to it. This will automatically create and attach an IAM policy to the role:
const role = new Role(this, 'MyRole', {
assumedBy: new ServicePrincipal('sns.amazonaws.com')
});
role.addPermission(new Permission('*', 'lambda:InvokeFunction'));
Define a policy and attach it to groups, users and roles. Note that it is possible to attach
the policy either by calling xxx.attachPolicy(policy) or policy.attachToXxx(xxx).
const user = new User(this, 'MyUser', { password: '1234' });
const group = new Group(this, 'MyGroup');
const policy = new Policy(this, 'MyPolicy');
policy.attachToUser(user);
group.attachPolicy(policy);
Managed policies can be attached using xxx.attachManagedPolicy(arn):
const group = new Group(this, 'MyGroup');
group.attachManagedPolicy('arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AdministratorAccess');
FAQs
CDK routines for easily assigning correct and minimal IAM permissions
The npm package @aws-cdk/aws-iam receives a total of 147,421 weekly downloads. As such, @aws-cdk/aws-iam popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @aws-cdk/aws-iam demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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