terraform-aws-ssm-parameter-store

Terraform module for providing read and write access to the AWS SSM Parameter Store.

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Introduction

• AWS Details on what values can be used
• AWS API for PutParameter
• Terraform aws_ssm_parameter resource page
• Terraform aws_ssm_parameter data page

Security & Compliance

Security scanning is graciously provided by Bridgecrew. Bridgecrew is the leading fully hosted, cloud-native solution providing continuous Terraform security and compliance.

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	Service Organization Control 2 Compliance
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	Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Compliance

Usage

IMPORTANT: We do not pin modules to versions in our examples because of the difficulty of keeping the versions in the documentation in sync with the latest released versions. We highly recommend that in your code you pin the version to the exact version you are using so that your infrastructure remains stable, and update versions in a systematic way so that they do not catch you by surprise.

Also, because of a bug in the Terraform registry (hashicorp/terraform#21417), the registry shows many of our inputs as required when in fact they are optional. The table below correctly indicates which inputs are required.

For a complete example, see examples/complete.

For automated tests of the complete example using bats and Terratest (which tests and deploys the example on AWS), see test.

This example creates a new String parameter called /cp/prod/app/database/master_password with the value of password1.

module "store_write" {
  source          = "git::https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-ssm-parameter-store?ref=master"

  parameter_write = [
    {
      name        = "/cp/prod/app/database/master_password"
      value       = "password1"
      type        = "String"
      overwrite   = "true"
      description = "Production database master password"
    }
  ]

  tags = {
    ManagedBy = "Terraform"
  }
}

This example reads a value from the parameter store with the name /cp/prod/app/database/master_password

module "store_read" {
  source         = "git::https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-ssm-parameter-store?ref=master"
  parameter_read = ["/cp/prod/app/database/master_password"]
}

Makefile Targets

Available targets:

  help                                Help screen
  help/all                            Display help for all targets
  help/short                          This help short screen
  lint                                Lint terraform code

Requirements

Name	Version
terraform	>= 0.13.0
aws	>= 2.0
local	>= 1.2
null	>= 2.0
template	>= 2.0

Providers

Name	Version
aws	>= 2.0

Inputs

Name	Description	Type	Default	Required
additional_tag_map	Additional tags for appending to tags_as_list_of_maps. Not added to tags.	map(string)	{}	no
attributes	Additional attributes (e.g. 1)	list(string)	[]	no
context	Single object for setting entire context at once. See description of individual variables for details. Leave string and numeric variables as null to use default value. Individual variable settings (non-null) override settings in context object, except for attributes, tags, and additional_tag_map, which are merged.	any	{ "additional_tag_map": {}, "attributes": [], "delimiter": null, "enabled": true, "environment": null, "id_length_limit": null, "label_key_case": null, "label_order": [], "label_value_case": null, "name": null, "namespace": null, "regex_replace_chars": null, "stage": null, "tags": {} }	no
delimiter	Delimiter to be used between namespace, environment, stage, name and attributes. Defaults to - (hyphen). Set to "" to use no delimiter at all.	string	null	no
enabled	Set to false to prevent the module from creating any resources	bool	null	no
environment	Environment, e.g. 'uw2', 'us-west-2', OR 'prod', 'staging', 'dev', 'UAT'	string	null	no
id_length_limit	Limit id to this many characters (minimum 6). Set to 0 for unlimited length. Set to null for default, which is 0. Does not affect id_full.	number	null	no
kms_arn	The ARN of a KMS key used to encrypt and decrypt SecretString values	string	""	no
label_key_case	The letter case of label keys (tag names) (i.e. name, namespace, environment, stage, attributes) to use in tags. Possible values: lower, title, upper. Default value: title.	string	null	no
label_order	The naming order of the id output and Name tag. Defaults to ["namespace", "environment", "stage", "name", "attributes"]. You can omit any of the 5 elements, but at least one must be present.	list(string)	null	no
label_value_case	The letter case of output label values (also used in tags and id). Possible values: lower, title, upper and none (no transformation). Default value: lower.	string	null	no
name	Solution name, e.g. 'app' or 'jenkins'	string	null	no
namespace	Namespace, which could be your organization name or abbreviation, e.g. 'eg' or 'cp'	string	null	no
parameter_read	List of parameters to read from SSM. These must already exist otherwise an error is returned. Can be used with parameter_write as long as the parameters are different.	list(string)	[]	no
parameter_write	List of maps with the parameter values to write to SSM Parameter Store	list(map(string))	[]	no
regex_replace_chars	Regex to replace chars with empty string in namespace, environment, stage and name. If not set, "/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/" is used to remove all characters other than hyphens, letters and digits.	string	null	no
split_delimiter	A delimiter for splitting and joining lists together for normalising the output	string	"~^~"	no
stage	Stage, e.g. 'prod', 'staging', 'dev', OR 'source', 'build', 'test', 'deploy', 'release'	string	null	no
tags	Additional tags (e.g. map('BusinessUnit','XYZ')	map(string)	{}	no

Outputs

Name	Description
arn_map	A map of the names and ARNs created
map	A map of the names and values created
names	A list of all of the parameter names
values	A list of all of the parameter values

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Related Projects

Check out these related projects.

• terraform-aws-ssm-iam-role - Terraform module to provision an IAM role with configurable permissions to access SSM Parameter Store
• terraform-aws-ssm-parameter-store-policy-documents - A Terraform module that generates JSON documents for access for common AWS SSM Parameter Store policies
• terraform-aws-iam-chamber-user - Terraform module to provision a basic IAM chamber user with access to SSM parameters and KMS key to decrypt secrets, suitable for CI/CD systems (e.g. TravisCI, CircleCI, CodeFresh) or systems which are external to AWS that cannot leverage AWS IAM Instance Profiles

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