cloud-init

CloudInit should support IAM roles

Bug #1027190 reported by Avishai Ish-Shalom on 2012-07-20

This bug affects 7 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	cloud-init	Expired	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

EC2 meta-data provider exposes IAM credentials per server role. CloudInit should expose them for use in plugins, e.g. cloudformation, sns phone home, s3 download, etc.

Avishai Ish-Shalom (avishai-ish-shalom) on 2012-07-20

Changed in cloud-init:
assignee:	nobody → Avishai Ish-Shalom (avishai-ish-shalom)

Scott Moser (smoser) on 2012-08-16

Changed in cloud-init:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Triaged

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glance (glance-acc) wrote on 2012-08-28:

O so lovely it would be to be able to use eg.

#include
s3://my-bucket-with-cloud-init-data/the-init-script.sh

And have could-init to fetch and run that script from s3 with the iam role credentials. This would help me with a lot of auto-scale scenarios.

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Schlomo Schapiro (sschapiro) wrote on 2014-07-02:

Any progress here? Why not rely on boto which already supports IAM roles out-of-the-box?

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Dan Watkins (oddbloke) wrote on 2019-03-06:

It's not 100% clear to me how the integration with IAM roles would be intended to work; could someone give some clarification and then set it back to New?

Thanks!