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# iam_policy – Manage IAM policies for users, groups, and roles

- Synopsis
- Requirements
- Parameters
- Notes
- Examples
- Status

## Synopsis

- Allows uploading or removing IAM policies for IAM users, groups or roles.

## Requirements

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

- python >= 2.6
- boto

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
aws_access_key string |  | 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. aliases: ec2_access_key, access_key
aws_secret_key string |  | 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. aliases: ec2_secret_key, secret_key
debug_botocore_endpoint_logs boolean added in 2.8 | Choices: no ← yes | Use a botocore.endpoint logger to parse the unique (rather than total) "resource:action" 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.
ec2_url string |  | 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.
iam_name - / required |  | Name of IAM resource you wish to target for policy actions. In other words, the user name, group name or role name.
iam_type - / required | Choices: user group role | Type of IAM resource
policy_document - |  | The path to the properly json formatted policy file (mutually exclusive with `policy_json`)
policy_json - |  | A properly json formatted policy as string (mutually exclusive with `policy_document`, see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/7005#issuecomment-42894813 on how to use it properly)
policy_name - / required |  | The name label for the policy to create or remove.
profile string |  | Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto >= 2.24.0.
region string |  | 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 http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region aliases: aws_region, ec2_region
security_token string |  | AWS STS security token. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variable is used. aliases: access_token
skip_duplicates - | Default: "/" | By default 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. You can override this by specifying false which would allow for two policy objects with different names but same rules.
state - / required | Choices: present absent | Whether to create or delete the IAM policy.
validate_certs boolean | Choices: no yes ← | When set to "no", SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.

## Notes

Note

- Currently boto does not support the removal of Managed Policies, the module will not work removing/adding managed policies.
- 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

    # Create a policy with the name of 'Admin' to the group 'administrators'
    - name: Assign a policy called Admin to the administrators group
      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
      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
      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
      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

- This module is guaranteed to have backward compatible interface changes going forward. [stableinterface]
- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

### Authors

- Jonathan I. Davila (@defionscode)

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