AWS
Objectives
Today I'm going to describe how to create a new admin user in the biggest cloud platform - AWS. AWS currently contains 212 available services which can be used to build complete environment. Admin user is necessary to manage all environments and services but that role is also limited and there is no default permission to some high level services like i.e. billing
Admin user
At the beginning let's find IAM (Identity and Access Management) service and create new group.
Press button "Create new group"
Type your group name
Select appropriate policy
And finally create new group
So, the Administrators group has just been created. Let's create "admin" user and add it to previously created group.
Press button "Add user"
Type user name and select access types
Select group with permissions
Add tags
User is almost created
That's it. User is active and access key is generated
Amazon CLI - Command Line Interface
CLI is very useful tool which could be used by administrators or ansible playbooks to create infrastructure on AWS.
Let's try it. Documentation is hire: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-welcome.html
After download and install we can check it.
aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: [access key]
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: [secret key]
Default region name [None]: eu-central-1
Default output format [None]: UTF-8
Base on configuration we can create KeyPair for testing
aws ec2 create-key-pair --key-name ArtsciKeyPair --query 'KeyMaterial' --output text > ArtsciKeyPair.pem
And using AWS console we can observe the results :)
