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Provides resources for managing AWS resources

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This cookbook includes resources and providers to configure and manage Amazon Web Services components and offerings with the EC2 API. Currently supported resources:

  • EBS Volumes (ebs_volume)
  • EBS Raid (ebs_raid)
  • Elastic IPs (elastic_ip)
  • Elastic Load Balancer (elastic_lb)
  • AWS Resource Tags (resource_tag)
  • Secondary IPs (secondary_ip)
  • AWS Cloudwatch Instance Monitoring (aws_instance_monitoring)
  • CloudFormation Stack Management (cloudformation_stack)
  • Kinesis Stream Management (kinesis_stream)
  • IAM User, Group, Policy, and Role Management:

    • (iam_user)
    • (iam_group)
    • (iam_policy)
    • (iam_role)
  • CloudWatch Management (aws_cloudwatch)

Unsupported AWS resources that have other cookbooks include but are not limited to:

Requirements

Platforms

  • Any platform supported by Chef and the AWS-SDK

Chef

  • Chef 12.1+

Cookbooks

  • Ohai 4.0+

Credentials

In order to manage AWS components, authentication credentials need to be available to the node. There are 3 ways to handle this:

  1. explicitly pass credentials parameter to the resource
  2. use the credentials in the ~/.aws/credentials file
  3. let the resource pick up credentials from the IAM role assigned to the instance

Also new resources can now assume an STS role, with support for MFA as well. Instructions are below in the relevant section.

Using resource parameters

In order to pass the credentials to the resource, credentials must be available to the node. There are a number of ways to handle this, such as node attributes applied to the node or via Chef roles/environments.

We recommend storing these in an encrypted databag, and loading them in the recipe where the resources are used.

Example Data Bag:

% knife data bag show aws main
{
  "id": "main",
  "aws_access_key_id": "YOUR_ACCESS_KEY",
  "aws_secret_access_key": "YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY",
  "aws_session_token": "YOUR_SESSION_TOKEN"
}

This can be loaded in a recipe with:

aws = data_bag_item('aws', 'main')

And to access the values:

aws['aws_access_key_id']
aws['aws_secret_access_key']
aws['aws_session_token']

We'll look at specific usage below.

Using local credentials

If credentials are not supplied via parameters, resources will look for the credentials in the ~/.aws/credentials file:

[default]
aws_access_key_id = ACCESS_KEY_ID
aws_secret_access_key = ACCESS_KEY

Note that this also accepts other profiles if they are supplied via the ENV['AWS_PROFILE'] environment variable.

Using IAM instance role

If your instance has an IAM role, then the credentials can be automatically resolved by the cookbook using Amazon instance metadata API.

You can then omit the resource parameters aws_secret_access_key and aws_access_key.

Of course, the instance role must have the required policies. Here is a sample policy for EBS volume management:

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Action": [
        "ec2:AttachVolume",
        "ec2:CreateVolume",
        "ec2:ModifyInstanceAttribute",
        "ec2:ModifyVolumeAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumeAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumeStatus",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
        "ec2:DetachVolume",
        "ec2:EnableVolumeIO"
      ],
      "Sid": "Stmt1381536011000",
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow"
    }
  ]
}

For resource tags:

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateTags",
        "ec2:DescribeTags"
      ],
      "Sid": "Stmt1381536708000",
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow"
    }
  ]
}

Assuming roles via STS and using MFA

The following is an example of how roles can be assumed using MFA. The following can also be used to assumes roles that do not require MFA, just ensure that the MFA arguments (serial_number and token_code) are omitted.

This assumes you have also stored the cfn_role_arn, and mfa_serial attributes as well, but there are plenty of ways these attributes can be supplied (they could be stored locally in the consuming cookbook, for example).

Note that MFA codes cannot be recycled, hence the importance of creating a single STS session and passing that to resources. If multiple roles need to be assumed using MFA, it is probably prudent that these be broken up into different recipes and chef-client runs.

require 'aws-sdk'
require 'securerandom'

session_id = SecureRandom.hex(8)
sts = ::Aws::AssumeRoleCredentials.new(
  client: ::Aws::STS::Client.new(
    credentials: ::Aws::Credentials.new(
      node['aws']['aws_access_key_id'],
      node['aws']['aws_secret_access_key']
    ),
    region: 'us-east-1'
  ),
  role_arn: node['aws']['cfn_role_arn'],
  role_session_name: session_id,
  serial_number: node['aws']['mfa_serial'],
  token_code: node['aws']['mfa_code']
)

aws_cloudformation_stack 'kitchen-test-stack' do
  action :create
  template_source 'kitchen-test-stack.tpl'
  aws_access_key sts.access_key_id
  aws_secret_access_key sts.secret_access_key
  aws_session_token sts.session_token
end

When running the cookbook, ensure that an attribute JSON is passed that supplies the MFA code. Example using chef-zero:

echo '{ "aws": { "mfa_code": "123456" } }' > mfa.json && chef-client -z -o 'recipe[aws_test]' -j mfa.json

Running outside of an AWS instance

region can be specified if the cookbook is being run outside of an AWS instance. This can prevent some kinds of failures that happen when resources try to detect region.

aws_cloudformation_stack 'kitchen-test-stack' do
  action :create
  template_source 'kitchen-test-stack.tpl'
  region 'us-east-1'
end

Recipes

default.rb

This recipe is empty. In previous releases it installed the aws-sdk gem, but this is now performed automatically in the providers.

ec2_hints.rb

This recipe is used to setup the EC2 hints for Ohai in the case that an instance is not created using knife-ec2.

Resources and Providers

ebs_volume.rb

Manage Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes with this resource.

Actions:

  • create - create a new volume.
  • attach - attach the specified volume.
  • detach - detach the specified volume.
  • delete - delete the specified volume.
  • snapshot - create a snapshot of the volume.
  • prune - prune snapshots.

Properties:

  • aws_secret_access_key, aws_access_key and optionally aws_session_token - required, unless using IAM roles for authentication.
  • size - size of the volume in gigabytes.
  • snapshot_id - snapshot to build EBS volume from.
  • most_recent_snapshot - use the most recent snapshot when creating a volume from an existing volume (defaults to false)
  • availability_zone - EC2 region, and is normally automatically detected.
  • device - local block device to attach the volume to, e.g. /dev/sdi but no default value, required.
  • volume_id - specify an ID to attach, cannot be used with action :create because AWS assigns new volume IDs
  • timeout - connection timeout for EC2 API.
  • snapshots_to_keep - used with action :prune for number of snapshots to maintain.
  • description - used to set the description of an EBS snapshot
  • volume_type - "standard", "io1", or "gp2" ("standard" is magnetic, "io1" is provisioned SSD, "gp2" is general purpose SSD)
  • piops - number of Provisioned IOPS to provision, must be >= 100
  • existing_raid - whether or not to assume the raid was previously assembled on existing volumes (default no)
  • encrypted - specify if the EBS should be encrypted
  • kms_key_id - the full ARN of the AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) master key to use when creating the encrypted volume (defaults to master key if not specified)
  • delete_on_termination - Boolean value to control whether or not the volume should be deleted when the instance it's attached to is terminated (defaults to nil). Only applies to :attach action.

ebs_raid.rb

Manage Elastic Block Store (EBS) raid devices with this resource. This resource is linux specific and creates a mdadm array using EBS volumes.

Actions:

  • auto_attach - create / mount raid array

Properties:

  • aws_secret_access_key, aws_access_key and optionally aws_session_token - required, unless using IAM roles for authentication.
  • mount_point - where to mount the RAID volume
  • mount_point_owner - the owner of the mount point (default root)
  • mount_point_group - the group of the mount point (default root)
  • mount_point_mode - the file mode of the mount point (default 00755)
  • disk_count - number of EBS volumes to raid
  • disk_size - size of EBS volumes to raid
  • level - RAID level (default 10)
  • filesystem - filesystem to format raid array (default ext4 supported ext4 or xfs) NOTE Using xfs assumes that you provide the underlying packages required for xfs to work.
  • filesystem_options - String of options to mount the filesystem with (default rw,noatime,nobootwait)
  • snapshots - array of EBS snapshots to restore. Snapshots must be taken using an ec2 consistent snapshot tool, and tagged with a number that indicates how many devices are in the array being backed up (e.g. "Logs Backup [0-4]" for a four-volume raid array snapshot)
  • disk_type - "standard", "io1", or "gp2" ("standard" is magnetic, "io1" is provisioned iops SSD, "gp2" is general purpose SSD)
  • disk_piops - number of Provisioned IOPS to provision per disk, must be > 100
  • disk_encrypted - specify if the EBS volumes should be encrypted
  • disk_kms_key_id - the full ARN of the AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) master key to use when creating the encrypted volumes (defaults to master key if not specified)

elastic_ip.rb

Actions:

  • associate - associate the IP.
  • disassociate - disassociate the IP.

Properties:

  • aws_secret_access_key, aws_access_key and optionally aws_session_token - passed to Opscode::AWS:Ec2 to authenticate, required, unless using IAM roles for authentication.
  • ip - the IP address.
  • timeout - connection timeout for EC2 API.

elastic_lb.rb

Actions:

  • register - Add this instance to the LB
  • deregister - Remove this instance from the LB

Properties:

  • aws_secret_access_key, aws_access_key and optionally aws_session_token - passed to Opscode::AWS:Ec2 to authenticate, required, unless using IAM roles for authentication.
  • name - the name of the LB, required.

resource_tag.rb

Actions:

  • add - Add tags to a resource.
  • update - Add or modify existing tags on a resource -- this is the default action.
  • remove - Remove tags from a resource, but only if the specified values match the existing ones.
  • force_remove - Remove tags from a resource, regardless of their values.

Properties:

  • aws_secret_access_key, aws_access_key and optionally aws_session_token - passed to Opscode::AWS:Ec2 to authenticate, required, unless using IAM roles for authentication.
  • tags - a hash of key value pairs to be used as resource tags, (e.g. { "Name" => "foo", "Environment" => node.chef_environment },) required.
  • resource_id - resources whose tags will be modified. The value may be a single ID as a string or multiple IDs in an array. If no
  • resource_id is specified the name attribute will be used.

instance_monitoring.rb

Actions:

  • enable - Enable detailed CloudWatch monitoring for this instance (Default).
  • disable - Disable detailed CloudWatch monitoring for this instance.

Properties:

  • aws_secret_access_key, aws_access_key and optionally aws_session_token - passed to Opscode::AWS:Ec2 to authenticate, required, unless using IAM roles for authentication.

secondary_ip.rb

This feature is available only to instances in EC2-VPC. It allows you to assign multiple private IP addresses to a network interface.

Actions:

  • assign - Assign a private IP to the instance.
  • unassign - Unassign a private IP from the instance.

Properties:

  • aws_secret_access_key, aws_access_key and optionally aws_session_token - passed to Opscode::AWS:Ec2 to authenticate, required, unless using IAM roles for authentication.
  • ip - the private IP address. If none is given on assignment, will assign a random IP in the subnet.
  • interface - the network interface to assign the IP to. If none is given, uses the default interface.
  • timeout - connection timeout for EC2 API.\

cloudwatch.rb

Actions:

  • create - Create or update cloudwatch alarms.
  • delete - Delete cloudwatch alarms.
  • disable_action - Disable action of the cloudwatch alarms.
  • enable_action - Enable action of the cloudwatch alarms.

Properties:

  • aws_secret_access_key, aws_access_key and optionally aws_session_token - passed to Opscode::AWS:Ec2 to authenticate, required, unless using IAM roles for authentication.
  • alarm_name - the alarm name. If none is given on assignment, will take the resource name.
  • alarm_description - the description of alarm. Can be blank also.
  • actions_enabled - true for enable action on OK, ALARM or Insufficient data. if true, any of ok_actions, alarm_actions or insufficient_data_actions must be specified.
  • ok_actions - array of action if alarm state is OK. If specified actions_enabled must be true.
  • alarm_actions - array of action if alarm state is ALARM. If specified actions_enabled must be true.
  • insufficient_data_actions - array of action if alarm state is INSUFFICIENT_DATA. If specified actions_enabled must be true.
  • metric_name - cloudwatch metric name of the alarm. eg - CPUUtilization.Required parameter.
  • namespace - namespace of the alarm. eg - AWS/EC2, required parameter.
  • statistic - statistic of the alarm. Vaule must be in any of SampleCount, Average, Sum, Minimum or Maximum. Required parameter.
  • extended_statistic - extended_statistic of the alarm. Specify a value between p0.0 and p100. Optional parameter.
  • dimensions - dimensions for the metric associated with the alarm. Array of name and vaule.
  • period - in seconds, over which the specified statistic is applied. Interger type and required parameter.
  • unit - unit of measure for the statistic. Required parameter.
  • evaluation_periods - number of periods over which data is compared to the specified threshold. Required parameter.
  • threshold - value against which the specified statistic is compared. Can be float or integer type. Required parameter.
  • comparison_operator - arithmetic operation to use when comparing the specified statistic and threshold. The specified statistic value is used as the first operand.

Usage

The following examples assume that the recommended data bag item has been created and that the following has been included at the top of the recipe where they are used.

include_recipe 'aws'
aws = data_bag_item('aws', 'main')

aws_ebs_volume

The resource only handles manipulating the EBS volume, additional resources need to be created in the recipe to manage the attached volume as a filesystem or logical volume.

aws_ebs_volume 'db_ebs_volume' do
  aws_access_key aws['aws_access_key_id']
  aws_secret_access_key aws['aws_secret_access_key']
  size 50
  device '/dev/sdi'
  action [:create, :attach]
end

This will create a 50G volume, attach it to the instance as /dev/sdi.

aws_ebs_volume 'db_ebs_volume_from_snapshot' do
  aws_access_key aws['aws_access_key_id']
  aws_secret_access_key aws['aws_secret_access_key']
  size 50
  device '/dev/sdi'
  snapshot_id 'snap-ABCDEFGH'
  action [:create, :attach]
end

This will create a new 50G volume from the snapshot ID provided and attach it as /dev/sdi.

aws_elastic_ip

The elastic_ip resource provider does not support allocating new IPs. This must be done before running a recipe that uses the resource. After allocating a new Elastic IP, we recommend storing it in a databag and loading the item in the recipe.

Databag structure:

% knife data bag show aws eip_load_balancer_production
{
  "id": "eip_load_balancer_production",
  "public_ip": "YOUR_ALLOCATED_IP"
}

Then to set up the Elastic IP on a system:

ip_info = data_bag_item('aws', 'eip_load_balancer_production')

aws_elastic_ip 'eip_load_balancer_production' do
  aws_access_key aws['aws_access_key_id']
  aws_secret_access_key aws['aws_secret_access_key']
  ip ip_info['public_ip']
  action :associate
end

This will use the loaded aws and ip_info databags to pass the required values into the resource to configure. Note that when associating an Elastic IP to an instance, connectivity to the instance will be lost because the public IP address is changed. You will need to reconnect to the instance with the new IP.

You can also store this in a role as an attribute or assign to the node directly, if preferred.

aws_elastic_lb

elastic_lb functions similarly to elastic_ip. Make sure that you've created the ELB and enabled your instances' availability zones prior to using this provider.

For example, to register the node in the 'QA' ELB:

aws_elastic_lb 'elb_qa' do
  aws_access_key aws['aws_access_key_id']
  aws_secret_access_key aws['aws_secret_access_key']
  name 'QA'
  action :register
end

aws_resource_tag

resource_tag can be used to manipulate the tags assigned to one or more AWS resources, i.e. ec2 instances, ebs volumes or ebs volume snapshots.

Assigning tags to a node to reflect its role and environment:

aws_resource_tag node['ec2']['instance_id'] do
  aws_access_key aws['aws_access_key_id']
  aws_secret_access_key aws['aws_secret_access_key']
  tags('Name' => 'www.example.com app server',
       'Environment' => node.chef_environment)
  action :update
end

Assigning a set of tags to multiple resources, e.g. ebs volumes in a disk set:

aws_resource_tag 'my awesome raid set' do
  aws_access_key aws['aws_access_key_id']
  aws_secret_access_key aws['aws_secret_access_key']
  resource_id ['vol-d0518cb2', 'vol-fad31a9a', 'vol-fb106a9f', 'vol-74ed3b14']
  tags('Name' => 'My awesome RAID disk set',
       'Environment' => node.chef_environment)
end
aws_resource_tag 'db_ebs_volume' do
  resource_id lazy { node['aws']['ebs_volume']['db_ebs_volume']['volume_id'] }
  tags ({ 'Service' => 'Frontend' })
end

aws_s3_file

s3_file can be used to download a file from s3 that requires aws authorization. This is a wrapper around the core chef remote_file resource and supports the same resource attributes as remote_file. See remote_file Chef Docs for a complete list of available attributes.

aws_s3_file '/tmp/foo' do
  bucket 'i_haz_an_s3_buckit'
  remote_path 'path/in/s3/bukket/to/foo'
  aws_access_key aws['aws_access_key_id']
  aws_secret_access_key aws['aws_secret_access_key']
  region 'us-west-1'
end

aws_instance_monitoring

Allows detailed CloudWatch monitoring to be enabled for the current instance.

aws_instance_monitoring "enable detailed monitoring"

aws_secondary_ip

The secondary_ip resource provider allows one to assign/unassign multiple private secondary IPs on an instance in EC2-VPC. The number of secondary IP addresses that you can assign to an instance varies by instance type. If no ip address is provided on assign, a random one from within the subnet will be assigned. If no interface is provided, the default interface (which is pulled from Ohai) will be used.

aws_secondary_ip "assign_additional_ip" do
  aws_access_key aws['aws_access_key_id']
  aws_secret_access_key aws['aws_secret_access_key']
  ip ip_info['private_ip']
  interface 'eth0'
  action :assign
end

aws_cloudformation_stack

Manage CloudFormation stacks with Chef.

Example:

aws_cloudformation_stack 'example-stack' do
  region 'us-east-1'
  template_source 'example-stack.tpl'

  parameters ([
    {
      :parameter_key => 'KeyPair',
      :parameter_value => 'user@host'
    },
    {
      :parameter_key => 'SSHAllowIPAddress',
      :parameter_value => '127.0.0.1/32'
    }
  ])
end

Actions:

  • create: Creates the stack, or updates it if it already exists.
  • delete: Begins the deletion process for the stack.

Attribute parameters are:

  • template_source: Required - the location of the CloudFormation template file. The file should be stored in the files directory in the cookbook.
  • parameters: An array of parameter_key and parameter_value pairs for parameters in the template. Follow the syntax in the example above.
  • disable_rollback: Set this to true if you want stack rollback to be disabled if creation of the stack fails. Default: false
  • stack_policy_body: Optionally define a stack policy to apply to the stack, mainly used in protecting stack resources after they are created. For more information, see Prevent Updates to Stack Resources in the CloudFormation user guide.
  • iam_capability: Set to true to allow the CloudFormation template to create IAM resources. This is the equivalent of setting CAPABILITY_IAM When using the SDK or CLI. Default: false

aws_dynamodb_table

Use this resource to create and delete DynamoDB tables. This includes the ability to add global secondary indexes to existing tables.

aws_dynamodb_table 'example-table' do
  action :create
  attribute_definitions [
    { attribute_name: 'Id', attribute_type: 'N' },
    { attribute_name: 'Foo', attribute_type: 'N' },
    { attribute_name: 'Bar', attribute_type: 'N' },
    { attribute_name: 'Baz', attribute_type: 'S' }
  ]
  key_schema [
    { attribute_name: 'Id', key_type: 'HASH' },
    { attribute_name: 'Foo', key_type: 'RANGE' }
  ]
  local_secondary_indexes [
    {
      index_name: 'BarIndex',
      key_schema: [
        {
          attribute_name: 'Id',
          key_type: 'HASH'
        },
        {
          attribute_name: 'Bar',
          key_type: 'RANGE'
        }
      ],
      projection: {
        projection_type: 'ALL'
      }
    }
  ]
  global_secondary_indexes [
    {
      index_name: 'BazIndex',
      key_schema: [{
        attribute_name: 'Baz',
        key_type: 'HASH'
      }],
      projection: {
        projection_type: 'ALL'
      },
      provisioned_throughput: {
        read_capacity_units: 1,
        write_capacity_units: 1
      }
    }
  ]
  provisioned_throughput ({
    read_capacity_units: 1,
    write_capacity_units: 1
  })
  stream_specification ({
    stream_enabled: true,
    stream_view_type: 'KEYS_ONLY'
  })
end

Actions:

  • create: Creates the table. Will update the following if the table exists:

    • global_secondary_indexes: Will remove non-existent indexes, add new ones, and update throughput for existing ones. All attributes need to be present in attribute_definitions. No effect if the resource is omitted.
    • stream_specification: Will update as shown. No effect is the resource is omitted.
    • provisioned_throughput: Will update as shown.
  • delete: Deletes the index.

Attributes:

  • attribute_definitions: Required. Attributes to create for the table. Mainly this is used to specify attributes that are used in keys, as otherwise one can add any attribute they want to a DynamoDB table.
  • key_schema: Required. Used to create the primary key for the table. Attributes need to be present in attribute_definitions.
  • local_secondary_indexes: Used to create any local secondary indexes for the table. Attributes need to be present in attribute_definitions.
  • global_secondary_indexes: Used to create any global secondary indexes. Can be done to an existing table. Attributes need to be present in
  • attribute_definitions.
  • provisioned_throughput: Define the throughput for this table.
  • stream_specification: Specify if there should be a stream for this table.

Several of the attributes shown here take parameters as shown in the AWS Ruby SDK Documentation. Also, the AWS DynamoDB Documentation may be of further help as well.

aws_kinesis_stream

Use this resource to create and delete Kinesis streams. Note that this resource cannot be used to modify the shard count as shard splitting is a somewhat complex operation (for example, even CloudFormation replaces streams upon update).

aws_kinesis_stream 'example-stream' do
 action :create
 starting_shard_count 1
end

Actions:

  • create: Creates the stream. No effect if the stream already exists.
  • delete: Deletes the stream.

Use starting_shard_count to control the amount of shards the stream starts with.

aws_iam_user

Use this resource to manage IAM users.

aws_iam_user 'example-user' do
  action :create
  path '/'
end

Actions:

  • create: Creates the user. No effect if the user already exists.
  • delete: Gracefully deletes the user (detaches from all attached entities, and deletes the user).

The IAM user takes the name of the resource. A path can be specified as well. For more information about paths, see IAM Identifiers in the Using IAM guide.

aws_iam_group

Use this resource to manage IAM groups. The group takes the name of the resource.

aws_iam_group 'example-group' do
  action :create
  path '/'
  members [
    'example-user'
  ]
  remove_members true
  policy_members [
    'arn:aws:iam::123456789012:policy/example-policy'
  ]
  remove_policy_members true
end

Actions:

  • create: Creates the group, and updates members and attached policies if the group already exists.
  • delete: Gracefully deletes the group (detaches from all attached entities, and deletes the group).

Attribute parameters are:

  • path: A path can be supplied for the group. For information on paths, see IAM Identifiers in the Using IAM guide.
  • members: An array of IAM users that are a member of this group.
  • remove_members: Set to false to ensure that members are not removed from the group when they are not present in the defined resource. Default: true
  • policy_members: An array of ARNs of IAM managed policies to attach to this resource. Accepts both user-defined and AWS-defined policy ARNs.
  • remove_policy_members: Set to false to ensure that policies are not detached from the group when they are not present in the defined resource. Default: true

aws_iam_policy

Use this resource to create an IAM policy. The policy takes the name of the resource.

aws_iam_policy 'example-policy' do
  action :create
  path '/'
  account_id '123456789012'
  policy_document <<-EOH.gsub(/^ {4}/, '')
    {
        "Version": "2012-10-17",
        "Statement": [
            {
                "Sid": "Stmt1234567890",
                "Effect": "Allow",
                "Action": [
                    "sts:AssumeRole"
                ],
                "Resource": [
                    "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/example-role"
                ]
            }
        ]
    }
  EOH
end

Actions:

  • create: Creates or updates the policy.
  • delete: Gracefully deletes the policy (detaches from all attached entities, deletes all non-default policy versions, then deletes the policy).

Attribute parameters are:

  • path: A path can be supplied for the group. For information on paths, see IAM Identifiers in the Using IAM guide.
  • policy_document: The JSON document for the policy.
  • account_id: The AWS account ID that the policy is going in. Required if using non-user credentials (ie: IAM role through STS or instance role).

aws_iam_role

Use this resource to create an IAM role. The policy takes the name of the resource.

aws_iam_role 'example-role' do
  action :create
  path '/'
  policy_members [
    'arn:aws:iam::123456789012:policy/example-policy'
  ]
  remove_policy_members true
  assume_role_policy_document <<-EOH.gsub(/^ {4}/, '')
    {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Sid": "",
          "Effect": "Deny",
          "Principal": {
            "AWS": "*"
          },
          "Action": "sts:AssumeRole"
        }
      ]
    }
  EOH
end
  • create: Creates the role if it does not exist. If the role exists, updates attached policies and the assume_role_policy_document.
  • delete: Gracefully deletes the role (detaches from all attached entities, and deletes the role).

Attribute parameters are:

  • path: A path can be supplied for the group. For information on paths, see IAM Identifiers in the Using IAM guide.
  • policy_members: An array of ARNs of IAM managed policies to attach to this resource. Accepts both user-defined and AWS-defined policy ARNs.
  • remove_policy_members: Set to false to ensure that policies are not detached from the group when they are not present in the defined resource. Default: true
  • assume_role_policy_document: The JSON policy document to apply to this role for trust relationships. Dictates what entities can assume this role.

aws_cloudwatch

Use this resource to manage cloudwatch alarms.

aws_cloudwatch "kitchen_test_alarm" do
  period 21600
  evaluation_periods 2
  threshold 50.0
  comparison_operator "LessThanThreshold"
  metric_name "CPUUtilization"
  namespace "AWS/EC2"
  statistic "Maximum"
  dimensions [{"name" : "InstanceId, "value" : "i-xxxxxxx"}]
  action :create
end

Actions:

  • create - Create or update cloudwatch alarms.
  • delete - Delete cloudwatch alarms.
  • disable_action - Disable action of the cloudwatch alarms.
  • enable_action - Enable action of the cloudwatch alarms.

Attribute parameters are:

  • aws_secret_access_key, aws_access_key and optionally aws_session_token - passed to Opscode::AWS:Ec2 to authenticate, required, unless using IAM roles for authentication.
  • alarm_name - the alarm name. If none is given on assignment, will take the resource name.
  • alarm_description - the description of alarm. Can be blank also.
  • actions_enabled - true for enable action on OK, ALARM or Insufficient data. if true, any of ok_actions, alarm_actions or insufficient_data_actions must be specified.
  • ok_actions - array of action if alarm state is OK. If specified actions_enabled must be true.
  • alarm_actions - array of action if alarm state is ALARM. If specified actions_enabled must be true.
  • insufficient_data_actions - array of action if alarm state is INSUFFICIENT_DATA. If specified actions_enabled must be true.
  • metric_name - cloudwatch metric name of the alarm. eg - CPUUtilization.Required parameter.
  • namespace - namespace of the alarm. eg - AWS/EC2, required parameter.
  • statistic - statistic of the alarm. Vaule must be in any of SampleCount, Average, Sum, Minimum or Maximum. Required parameter.
  • extended_statistic - extended_statistic of the alarm. Specify a value between p0.0 and p100. Optional parameter.
  • dimensions - dimensions for the metric associated with the alarm. Array of name and vaule.
  • period - in seconds, over which the specified statistic is applied. Interger type and required parameter.
  • unit - unit of measure for the statistic. Required parameter.
  • evaluation_periods - number of periods over which data is compared to the specified threshold. Required parameter.
  • threshold - value against which the specified statistic is compared. Can be float or integer type. Required parameter.
  • comparison_operator - arithmetic operation to use when comparing the specified statistic and threshold. The specified statistic value is used as the first operand.

For more information about parameters, see Cloudwatch Identifiers in the Using Cloudwatch guide.

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ohai >= 4.0

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aws Cookbook CHANGELOG

This file is used to list changes made in each version of the aws cookbook.

4.2.0 (2017-01-21)

  • README: Add ec2:ModifyInstanceAttribute to sample IAM policy (fixes #241)
  • Added a new resource for managing CloudWatch alarms

4.1.3 (2016-11-01)

  • Dont declare region twice in S3_file

4.1.2 (2016-10-04)

  • Add matcher definitions for ChefSpec

4.1.1 (2016-09-19)

  • Fix false "volume no longer exists" errors.
  • Use alias_method to cleanup backwards compatibility in s3_file

4.1.0 (2016-09-19)

  • Pass through retry_delay to remote_file
  • Require ohai 4.0+ cookbook and use new compile_time method for ohai_hint resource
  • Remove Chef 11 compatibility code in the aws-sdk gem install

4.0.0 (2016-09-15)

  • Testing updates
  • Require Chef 12.1 or later
  • Use node.normal instead of node.set to avoid deprecation notices
  • Warn in the logs if the default recipe is included
  • Remove the ohai reload on every run in the hint recipe
  • Remove chef 11 compat in the metadata

3.4.1 (2016-08-09)

  • Modified find_snapshot_id method to make it work as intended
  • Testing framework updates

v3.4.0 (2016-06-30)

  • Added retries property to s3_file
  • Switched docker based test kitchen testing to kitchen-dokken
  • Added chef_version support metadata
  • Added suse, opensuse, and opensuseleap as supported platforms
  • Fixed Assume role credentials bug

v3.3.3 (2016-05-10)

  • Add support for new ebs volume types: sc1 st1

v3.3.2 (2016-04-13)

  • Resolved no method error when using the elb resource
  • Fixed a bug in the md5 check in the s3_file resource

v3.3.1 (2016-03-25)

  • Only install the aws-sdk gem at compile_time if chef-client supports that

v3.3.0 (2016-03-25)

  • The AWS gem is now automatically installed as needed by the providers
  • Added ChefSpec matchers for: cloudformation_stack, dynamodb_table, elastic_lb, iam_*, kinetic_stream, scondary_ip.

v3.2.0 (2016-03-23)

  • Add the :delete action to the ebs_volume provider

v3.1.0 (2016-03-22)

  • Added the sensitive attribute to the s3_file provider
  • s3_file provider now compares md5sums of local files against those in S3 to determine if the file should be downloaded during the chef-client run
  • s3_file provider now properly handles region by defaulting to us-east-1 unless a region is provided in the resource
  • An inspec test suite has been added for the s3_file provider
  • s3 connection objects are no longer stored in a per-region hash as this is longer necessary with the changes to how connection objects are stored
  • The region method in the S3 module has been removed as it wasn't being used after region handling refactoring in the 3.0 release

v3.0.0 (2016-03-20)

Breaking changes:

  • Removed the ability to use databags for credentials with the ebs_raid provider. You must now pass the credentials in via the resource, @tas50
  • #218 Remove support for Chef < 11.6.0, @tas50
  • Switched to Ohai to gather information on the AWS instance instead of direct AWS metadata calls. This also removes the node['region'] attribute, which is no longer necessary. If you would like to mock the region for some reason in local testing set node['ec2']['placement_availability_zone'] to the AZ, as this is used to determine the region, @tas50
  • aws-sdk gem is no longer loaded in default recipe

Other Changes

  • #172 Several new features (AWS CloudFormation Support, IAM Support, Kinesis, DynamoDB, and local auth options) @vancluever
  • Changes the AWS connect to not be shared accross resources. This allows each resource to run against a different region or use different credentials, @tas50
  • #63 Add xfs support for ebs_raid filesystem, @bazbremner
  • Fixed nil default value deprecation warnings in the providers, @tas50
  • Fixed errors in the ebs_raid provider, @tas50
  • Fixed missing values in the converge messaging in the ebs_volume provider, @tas50
  • Fixed a failure when detaching ebs volumes, @dhui
  • Added use_inline_resources to all providers, @tas50

v2.9.3 (2016-03-07)

  • Resolved a default value warning in ebs_raid when running Chef 12.7.2+
  • Updated development and testing Gem dependencies
  • Resolved the latest rubocop warnings

v2.9.2 (2016-01-26)

  • Fix a missing space in the ohai dependency

v2.9.1 (2016-01-26)

  • Require ohai 2.1.0 or later due to a bug in previous releases that prevented ohai hints from being created
  • Added inspec tests for the ohai hint file creation
  • Added supported platforms to the metadata so the platform badges will display on the Supermarket

v2.9.0 (2016-01-26)

  • #191 Add region attribute to s3_file provider, @zl4bv
  • #203 Create the ec2 hint using the ohai provider for Windows compatibility, @tas50
  • #205 Fix elb register/deregister, @obazoud

v2.8.0 (2016-01-21)

  • #192 Fix secondary_ip failure, add windows support, and document in the readme, @Scythril
  • #185 Update the aws-sdk dependency to the 2.2.X release, @tas50
  • #189 Loosen the dependency on the aws-sdk to bring in current releases, @philoserf
  • #183 Load the aws-sdk gem directly in the providers, @shortdudey123
  • #165 Fix encryption support in ebs_raid provider, @DrMerlin
  • #190 Add support for AssumeRole granted credentials using the either provided key or an instance profile, @knorby
  • #160 Add an attribute to define the region if you're not running in AWS @ubiquitousthey
  • #162 Update the Berksfile syntax, @miketheman
  • Added testing in Travis CI
  • Added a Gemfile with testing dependencies
  • Added cookbook version and Travis CI status badges to the readme
  • Test on the latest Chef releases instead of 11.16.0
  • Update contributing and testing documentation
  • Add Rakefile for simplified testing
  • Add maintainers.md/maintainers.toml files and a Rake task for managing the MD file
  • Update provider resources to use the Chef 11+ default_action format

v2.7.2 (2015-06-29)

  • #124 Retain compatibility with Chef 11, @dhui
  • #128 Use correct pageable response from aws-sdk v2 update, @drywheat
  • #133 Fix ELB registration to detect correctly, deregister fix, @purgatorio
  • #154 Update the contributing guide, @miketheman
  • #156 Fix ebs_raid behavior without a snapshot_id, @mkantor
  • Updates for ignores, use correct supermarket url, @tas50

v2.7.1 (2015-06-04)

  • Adding support for aws_session_token

v2.7.0 (2015-04-06)

  • Support for encrypted EBS volumes
  • secondary_ip resource and provider
  • Improvement of resource_tag id regex
  • Add ChefSpec matchers for aws cookbook resources

v2.6.6 (2015-05-06)

  • #123 Cleans up README and adds more metadata

v2.6.5 (2015-03-19)

  • #110 Fix chef_gem compile time usage, also in conjunction with chef-sugar and Chef 11

v2.6.4 (2015-02-18)

  • Reverting all chef_gem compile_time edits

v2.6.3 (2015-02-18)

  • Fixing chef_gem with Chef::Resource::ChefGem.method_defined?(:compile_time)

v2.6.2 (2015-02-18)

  • Fixing chef_gem for Chef below 12.1.0

v2.6.1 (2015-02-17)

  • Being explicit about usage of the chef_gem's compile_time property.
  • Eliminating future deprecation warnings in Chef 12.1.0.

v2.6.0 (2015-02-10)

  • Convert to use aws-sdk instead of right_aws

v2.5.0 (2014-10-22)

  • #60 Updates to CHANGELOG
  • #85 Lots of testing harness goodness
  • #89 Add a recipe to setup ec2 hints in ohai
  • #74 README and CHANGELOG updates
  • #65 Add a resource for enabling CloudWatch Detailed Monitoring
  • #90 Add tests for aws_instance_monitoring

v2.4.0 (2014-08-07)

  • #64 - force proxy off for metadata queries

v2.3.0 (2014-07-02)

  • Added support for provisioning General Purpose (SSD) volumes (gp2)

v2.2.2 (2014-05-19)

  • [COOK-4655] - Require ec2 gem

v2.2.0 (2014-04-23)

  • [COOK-4500] Support IAM roles for ELB

v2.1.1 (2014-03-18)

  • [COOK-4415] disk_existing_raid resource name inconsistency

v2.1.0 (2014-02-25)

Improvement

  • COOK-4008 - Add name property for aws_elastic_ip LWRP

v2.0.0 (2014-02-19)

  • [COOK-2755] Add allocate action to the elastic ip resource
  • [COOK-2829] Expose AWS credentials for ebs_raid LWRP as parameters
  • [COOK-2935]
  • [COOK-4213] Use use_inline_resources
  • [COOK-3467] Support IAM role
  • [COOK-4344] Add support for mounting existing raids and reusing volume
  • [COOK-3859] Add VPC support (allocation_id) to AWS elastic_ip LWRPJoseph Smith

v1.0.0

Improvement

  • [COOK-2829] - Expose AWS credentials for ebs_raid LWRP as parameters
  • Changing attribute defaults begs a major version bump

v0.101.6

Bug

  • COOK-3475 - Fix an issue where invoking action detach in the ebs_volume provider when the volume is already detached resulted in a failure

v0.101.4

Improvement

  • COOK-3345 - Add aws_s3_file LWRP
  • COOK-3264 - Allow specifying of file ownership for ebs_raid resource mount_point

Bug

  • COOK-3308 - Ensure mdadm properly allocates the device number

v0.101.2

Bug

  • [COOK-2951]: aws cookbook has foodcritic failures

Improvement

  • [COOK-1471]: aws cookbook should mention the route53 cookbook

v0.101.0

Bug

  • [COOK-1355]: AWS::ElasticIP recipe uses an old RightAWS API to associate an elastic ip address to an EC2 instance
  • [COOK-2659]: volume_compatible_with_resource_definition fails on valid snapshot_id configurations
  • [COOK-2670]: AWS cookbook doesn't use node[:aws][:databag_name], etc. in create_raid_disks
  • [COOK-2693]: exclude AWS reserved tags from tag update
  • [COOK-2914]: Foodcritic failures in Cookbooks

Improvement

  • [COOK-2587]: Resource attribute for using most recent snapshot instead of earliest
  • [COOK-2605]: "WARN: Missing gem 'right_aws'" always prints when including 'aws' in metadata

New Feature

  • [COOK-2503]: add EBS raid volumes and provisioned IOPS support for AWS

v0.100.6

  • [COOK-2148] - aws_ebs_volume attach action saves nil volume_id in node

v0.100.4

  • Support why-run mode in LWRPs
  • [COOK-1836] - make aws_elastic_lb idempotent

v0.100.2

  • [COOK-1568] - switch to chef_gem resource
  • [COOK-1426] - declare default actions for LWRPs

v0.100.0

  • [COOK-1221] - convert node attribute accessors to strings
  • [COOK-1195] - manipulate AWS resource tags (instances, volumes, snapshots
  • [COOK-627] - add aws_elb (elastic load balancer) LWRP

v0.99.1

  • [COOK-530] - aws cookbook doesn't save attributes with chef 0.10.RC.0
  • [COOK-600] - In AWS Cookbook specifying just the device doesn't work
  • [COOK-601] - in aws cookbook :prune action keeps 1 less snapshot than snapshots_to_keep
  • [COOK-610] - Create Snapshot action in aws cookbook should allow description attribute
  • [COOK-819] - fix documentation bug in aws readme
  • [COOK-829] - AWS cookbook does not work with most recent right_aws gem but no version is locked in the recipe

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