Sharing consistent AWS profiles amongst team members can be helpful. This allows you to adopt consistent role names across your documentation and scripts. For example: ”run your development deploys using the cf-dev role”.

To manage sharing profile configuration, Granted provides a Profile Registry. This feature utilizes a git repository as a central store for AWS profile configurations. Granted’s Profile Registry synchronizes this to the default AWS config file located locally at ~/.aws/config.

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Creating a Profile Registry

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Using Granted to configure a Profile Registry

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Create a Profile Registry folder.

You can quickly copy the contents of your local ~/.aws/config file to a Profile Registry repository with the following command:

granted registry setup

This will copy all profiles inside your ~/.aws/config file to the Profile Registry’s config file.

This command outputs a granted-registry folder to your current working directory. This folder contains the following files:

├── .git
├── config
└── granted.yml

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Add the local repository to your git-based version control tool.

The granted-registry repository will need to be manually added to your organization’s version control tool. For GitHub, you can follow this link.

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Adding a Profile Registry

You can add any git-based repository to Granted’s Profile Registry. By default, Granted looks for a granted.yml file in the root of the repository. Should you wish to specify an alternative YAML file, follow this guide.

You can add a repository to Granted’s Profile Registry by running the following command:

granted registry add -name <registry_name> -url <repository_url>

Here, flag -name or its alias -n is required to identify the registry.

The granted.yml file identifies AWS config files to be synced to Granted’s Profile Registry. These config files must exist in the repository; paths pointing outside the repository such as ../config are not permitted. Multiple config files are allowed and are merged together when syncing your local config file to the repository.

A valid granted.yml requires an awsConfig key to be present. For example:

awsConfig:
  - ./config
  - ./other-config

In the above example, AWS profiles inside config and other-config files will be merged and synced to your local ./aws/config file.

If there are any duplicate profile names in the same repository, the latter will overwrite those former causing only unique profiles to be synced.

Adding a registry will manipulate your local ~/.aws/config file to include Granted autogenerated sections. Here’s an example:

# Granted-Registry Autogenerated Section. DO NOT EDIT.
# This section is automatically generated by Granted (https://granted.dev). Manual edits to this section will be overwritten.
# To edit, clone your profile registry repo, edit granted.yml, and push your changes. You may need to make a pull request depending on the repository settings.
# To stop syncing and remove this section, run 'granted registry remove
[granted_registry_start granted-registry]

[profile dev]
sso_start_url  = <https://example.awsapps.com/start>
sso_region     = <your-sso-region>
sso_account_id = <your-sso-account-id>
sso_role_name  = <your-sso-role-name>

[granted_registry_end granted-registry]

To avoid confusion, synced profiles are placed into a designated region in the /.aws/config file as shown above. This allows users to have a mix of both synced and regular profiles in their config file:

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Optional flags when adding a Profile Registry

Optional FlagAliasDescription
pathpprovide path if only the subfolder needs to be synced
file-namefprovide filename if yml file is not granted.yml
priorityprofile registry will be sorted by priority descending
prefix-all-profilespapprovide this flag if you want to append registry name to all profiles
prefix-duplicate-profilespdpprovide this flag if you want to append registry name to duplicate profiles
required-keyrused to bypass the prompt or override user specific values

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Usage:

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Specifying an alternative YAML file.

Granted allows you to specify an alternative YAML file for your Profile Registry’s configuration. Should you wish to specify a different YAML file, run:

granted registry add -n <registry_name> -u <your-repo-url> -f <file_name>

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Specifying only a subfolder

If you have subfolder such as:

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├── team_dev
│   ├── config1
│   ├── config2
│   ├── granted.yml
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├── team_ops
│   ├── config3
│   ├── config4
│   ├── custom.yml

Then you can specify only the subfolder containing a granted.yml file:

granted registry add -n <name> -u <your-repo-url> -p <relative_path_to_subfolder>

Or with custom file name as:

granted registry add -n <name> -u <your-repo-url.git> -p <relative_path_to_subfolder> -f <filename>

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Handling duplicate profile names

When multiple registries are in use, registries are synced in descending priority where the default priority is zero. This allows you to consistently define which registry config should be prefixed upon duplication.

For example, you have Profile Registries core with priority one and devOps with priority zero that both include a profile named dev. In this case, the dev profile from devOps Profile Registry will be prefixed with the registry name to devops.dev.

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Variable substitution for profile configurations

To enable templated profiles, profile values can include Go Templates. This is achieved through adding templateValues to your config.yml file. Below in an example.

awsConfig:
  - ./dev/config1
templateValues:
  - <YourKeyName>
    - ...
  - BaseProfile:
    - value: "my-profile"
  - SessionName:
      - isRequired: true
      - prompt: "Enter your user name (e.g john.doe)"

Templated values should be defined with {{ .Required.KeyName}} or {{ .Variables.KeyName}} to differentiate if they are user specific values or arbitary variables.

Your corresponsing profiles might look like:

[profile dev]
sso_start_url  = <https://example.awsapps.com/start>
sso_region     = <your-sso-region>
sso_account_id = <your-sso-account-id>
sso_role_name  = <your-sso-role-name>
credential_process = granted credential-process --profile {{ .Profile }}

[profile prod]
session_name = {{ .Required.SessionName }}
role_arn = arn:aws:iam::0123456789012:role/example

[profile uat]
source_profile = {{ .Variables.BaseProfile}}
role_arn = arn:aws:iam::0123456789012:role/example

You can also use {{ .Profile}} when templating which will accurately interpolate the correct prefixed profile name in case of profile duplication.

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User specific values

Should your Profile Registry require user specific values, you can set these values as required fields by adding isRequired:true to the key name of the field. Below is an example granted.yml file.

awsConfig:
  - ...
templateValues:
  - SessionName:
      - isRequired: true
      - prompt: "Enter your user name (e.g john.doe)"

Your config file might look like:

[profile prod]
session_name = {{ .Required.SessionName }}
role_arn = arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/example

The inclusion of isRequired:true will prompt the user to add the value for SessionName when the granted registry add/sync command is run. Upon successful execution, Granted will interpolate the template to the AWS config file with the user provided value.

You can bypass the prompt by providing the -r flag to the Granted CLI command:

granted registry add -n <name> -u <url> -r "SessionName=<your_session_name>"

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Arbitrary variables

For cases where you want to reuse a variable within a config file, you can add value to any key name in templateValues. Below is an example granted.yml file:

  1. Add your template variable to granted.yml file like:
awsConfig:
  - ...
templateValues:
  - BaseProfile:
      - value: "my-profile"

Your config file might look like:

[profile myacc]
source_profile = {{ .Variables.BaseProfile }}
role_arn = arn:aws:iam::0123456789012:role/readonly

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Syncing a Profile Registry

Adding a Profile Registry is sufficient to sync the granted.yml config file. Once per day Granted will automatically sync the repositories contained within your Profile Registry. By default, this process will be invoked when you run granted credential-process or assume commands.

Should you wish to invoke a manual sync, run:

granted registry sync

This will loop over the repositories associated with your Profile Registry and will pull the latest changes from the remote origin, performing a sync operation.

When using AWS CLI with granted credential-process you will not be able to add user specific keys through STDIO. Doing so will cause the sync to fail. This occurs as AWS expects only specific JSON STDOUT when sourcing credentials with an external process. Instead, you should first run the follwoing command to enter the required keys:

granted registry sync

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Removing a Profile Registry

To unsubscribe a repository from Granted’s Profile Registry run the following command:

granted registry remove

This will display all repositories subscribed to Granted’s Profile Registry and will prompt you to choose a repository to unsubscribe.

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Migrating Profile Registry configuration

As part of Granted v0.5.0, the Profile Registry didn’t require the -n or -u flags. Granted v0.6.0 includes breaking changes to this. If you are using a version of Profile Registries prior to Granted v0.6.0, run the following command to migrate your registry configuration:

granted registry migrate
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