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.. _community.aws.iam_policy_module:


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community.aws.iam_policy
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**Manage inline IAM policies for users, groups, and roles**



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Synopsis
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- Allows uploading or removing inline IAM policies for IAM users, groups or roles.
- To administer managed policies please see :ref:`community.aws.iam_user <community.aws.iam_user_module>`, :ref:`community.aws.iam_role <community.aws.iam_role_module>`, :ref:`community.aws.iam_group <community.aws.iam_group_module>` and :ref:`community.aws.iam_managed_policy <community.aws.iam_managed_policy_module>`



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

- python >= 2.6
- boto


Parameters
----------

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                    <b>aws_access_key</b>
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                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
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                                                                                                                                                            </td>
                                                                <td>
                                            <div>AWS access key. If not set then the value of the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable is used.</div>
                                                                <div style="font-size: small; color: darkgreen"><br/>aliases: ec2_access_key, access_key</div>
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                    <b>aws_config</b>
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                        <span style="color: purple">dictionary</span>
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                                                                                                                                                            </td>
                                                                <td>
                                            <div>A dictionary to modify the botocore configuration.</div>
                                            <div>Parameters can be found at <a href='https://botocore.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/config.html#botocore.config.Config'>https://botocore.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/config.html#botocore.config.Config</a>.</div>
                                            <div>Only the &#x27;user_agent&#x27; key is used for boto modules. See <a href='http://boto.cloudhackers.com/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html#boto'>http://boto.cloudhackers.com/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html#boto</a> for more boto configuration.</div>
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                    <b>aws_secret_key</b>
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                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
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                                            <div>AWS secret key. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY, or EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variable is used.</div>
                                                                <div style="font-size: small; color: darkgreen"><br/>aliases: ec2_secret_key, secret_key</div>
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                    <b>debug_botocore_endpoint_logs</b>
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                        <span style="color: purple">boolean</span>
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                                                                                                                                                                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
                                                                                                                                                                <li><div style="color: blue"><b>no</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <li>yes</li>
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                                            <div>Use a botocore.endpoint logger to parse the unique (rather than total) &quot;resource:action&quot; API calls made during a task, outputing the set to the resource_actions key in the task results. Use the aws_resource_action callback to output to total list made during a playbook. The ANSIBLE_DEBUG_BOTOCORE_LOGS environment variable may also be used.</div>
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                    <b>ec2_url</b>
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                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
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                                            <div>Url to use to connect to EC2 or your Eucalyptus cloud (by default the module will use EC2 endpoints). Ignored for modules where region is required. Must be specified for all other modules if region is not used. If not set then the value of the EC2_URL environment variable, if any, is used.</div>
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                    <b>iam_name</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
                                                 / <span style="color: red">required</span>                    </div>
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                                            <div>Name of IAM resource you wish to target for policy actions. In other words, the user name, group name or role name.</div>
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                    <b>iam_type</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
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                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
                                                 / <span style="color: red">required</span>                    </div>
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                                                                                                                            <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
                                                                                                                                                                <li>user</li>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <li>group</li>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <li>role</li>
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                                            <div>Type of IAM resource.</div>
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                    <b>policy_document</b>
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                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
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                                            <div>The path to the properly json formatted policy file.</div>
                                            <div>Mutually exclusive with <em>policy_json</em>.</div>
                                            <div>This option has been deprecated and will be removed in 2.14.  The existing behavior can be reproduced by using the <em>policy_json</em> option and reading the file using the lookup plugin.</div>
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                    <b>policy_json</b>
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                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">json</span>
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                                            <div>A properly json formatted policy as string.</div>
                                            <div>Mutually exclusive with <em>policy_document</em>.</div>
                                            <div>See <a href='https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/7005#issuecomment-42894813'>https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/7005#issuecomment-42894813</a> on how to use it properly.</div>
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                    <b>policy_name</b>
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                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
                                                 / <span style="color: red">required</span>                    </div>
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                                            <div>The name label for the policy to create or remove.</div>
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                    <b>profile</b>
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                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
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                                            <div>Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto &gt;= 2.24.0.</div>
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                    <b>region</b>
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                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
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                                            <div>The AWS region to use. If not specified then the value of the AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION environment variable, if any, is used. See <a href='http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region'>http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region</a></div>
                                                                <div style="font-size: small; color: darkgreen"><br/>aliases: aws_region, ec2_region</div>
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                    <b>security_token</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
                                                                    </div>
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                                                                                                                                                            </td>
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                                            <div>AWS STS security token. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variable is used.</div>
                                                                <div style="font-size: small; color: darkgreen"><br/>aliases: access_token</div>
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                    <b>skip_duplicates</b>
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                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">boolean</span>
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                                                                                                                                                                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
                                                                                                                                                                <li>no</li>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <li>yes</li>
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                                                                <td>
                                            <div>When <em>skip_duplicates=true</em> the module looks for any policies that match the document you pass in.  If there is a match it will not make a new policy object with the same rules.</div>
                                            <div>The current default is <code>true</code>.  However, this behavior can be confusing and as such the default will change to <code>false</code> in 2.14.  To maintain the existing behavior explicitly set <em>skip_duplicates=true</em>.</div>
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                    <b>state</b>
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                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
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                                                                                                                            <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
                                                                                                                                                                <li><div style="color: blue"><b>present</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <li>absent</li>
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                                            <div>Whether to create or delete the IAM policy.</div>
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                                                                <td colspan="1">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>validate_certs</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">boolean</span>
                                                                    </div>
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                                <td>
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
                                                                                                                                                                <li>no</li>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <li><div style="color: blue"><b>yes</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
                                                                                    </ul>
                                                                            </td>
                                                                <td>
                                            <div>When set to &quot;no&quot;, SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions &gt;= 2.6.0.</div>
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Notes
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.. note::
   - If parameters are not set within the module, the following environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence ``AWS_URL`` or ``EC2_URL``, ``AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID`` or ``AWS_ACCESS_KEY`` or ``EC2_ACCESS_KEY``, ``AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`` or ``AWS_SECRET_KEY`` or ``EC2_SECRET_KEY``, ``AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN`` or ``EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN``, ``AWS_REGION`` or ``EC2_REGION``
   - Ansible uses the boto configuration file (typically ~/.boto) if no credentials are provided. See https://boto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html
   - ``AWS_REGION`` or ``EC2_REGION`` can be typically be used to specify the AWS region, when required, but this can also be configured in the boto config file



Examples
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.. code-block:: yaml+jinja

    
    # Create a policy with the name of 'Admin' to the group 'administrators'
    - name: Assign a policy called Admin to the administrators group
      community.aws.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.
    - name: Create Two Groups, Mario and Luigi
      community.aws.iam:
        iam_type: group
        name: "{{ item }}"
        state: present
      loop:
         - Mario
         - Luigi
      register: new_groups

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

    # Create a new S3 policy with prefix per user
    - name: Create S3 policy from template
      community.aws.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') }} "
        loop:
          - user: s3_user
            prefix: s3_user_prefix






Status
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Authors
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- Jonathan I. Davila (@defionscode)
- Dennis Podkovyrin (@sbj-ss)


.. hint::
    Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.
