Terraform module to create a peering connection between any two VPCs existing in different AWS accounts.
This module supports performing this action from a 3rd account (e.g. a "root" account) by specifying the roles to assume for each member account.
IMPORTANT: AWS allows a multi-account VPC Peering Connection to be deleted from either the requester's or accepter's side.
However, Terraform only allows the VPC Peering Connection to be deleted from the requester's side by removing the corresponding aws_vpc_peering_connection
resource from your configuration.
Read more about this on Terraform's documentation portal.
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VPC Peering Connection in the AWS Web Console
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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.
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because there may be breaking changes between releases. Instead pin to the release tag (e.g. ?ref=tags/x.y.z
) of one of our latest releases.
For a complete example, see examples/complete
module "vpc_peering_cross_account" {
source = "cloudposse/vpc-peering-multi-account/aws"
# Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version
# version = "x.x.x"
namespace = "eg"
stage = "dev"
name = "cluster"
requester_aws_assume_role_arn = "arn:aws:iam::XXXXXXXX:role/cross-account-vpc-peering-test"
requester_region = "us-west-2"
requester_vpc_id = "vpc-xxxxxxxx"
requester_allow_remote_vpc_dns_resolution = true
accepter_aws_assume_role_arn = "arn:aws:iam::YYYYYYYY:role/cross-account-vpc-peering-test"
accepter_region = "us-east-1"
accepter_vpc_id = "vpc-yyyyyyyy"
accepter_allow_remote_vpc_dns_resolution = true
}
The arn:aws:iam::XXXXXXXX:role/cross-account-vpc-peering-test
requester IAM Role should have the following Trust Policy:
Show Trust Policy
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"AWS": "arn:aws:iam::XXXXXXXX:root"
},
"Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
"Condition": {}
}
]
}
and the following IAM Policy attached to it:
NOTE: the policy specifies the permissions to create (with terraform plan/apply
) and delete (with terraform destroy
) all the required resources in the requester AWS account
Show IAM Policy
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"ec2:CreateRoute",
"ec2:DeleteRoute"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:XXXXXXXX:route-table/*"
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"ec2:DescribeVpcPeeringConnections",
"ec2:DescribeVpcs",
"ec2:ModifyVpcPeeringConnectionOptions",
"ec2:DescribeSubnets",
"ec2:DescribeVpcAttribute",
"ec2:DescribeRouteTables"
],
"Resource": "*"
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"ec2:AcceptVpcPeeringConnection",
"ec2:DeleteVpcPeeringConnection",
"ec2:CreateVpcPeeringConnection",
"ec2:RejectVpcPeeringConnection"
],
"Resource": [
"arn:aws:ec2:*:XXXXXXXX:vpc-peering-connection/*",
"arn:aws:ec2:*:XXXXXXXX:vpc/*"
]
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"ec2:DeleteTags",
"ec2:CreateTags"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:XXXXXXXX:vpc-peering-connection/*"
}
]
}
where XXXXXXXX
is the requester AWS account ID.
The arn:aws:iam::YYYYYYYY:role/cross-account-vpc-peering-test
accepter IAM Role should have the following Trust Policy:
Show Trust Policy
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"AWS": "arn:aws:iam::XXXXXXXX:root"
},
"Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
"Condition": {}
}
]
}
NOTE: The accepter Trust Policy is the same as the requester Trust Policy since it defines who can assume the IAM Role.
In the requester case, the requester account ID itself is the trusted entity.
For the accepter, the Trust Policy specifies that the requester account ID XXXXXXXX
can assume the role in the accepter AWS account YYYYYYYY
.
and the following IAM Policy attached to it:
NOTE: the policy specifies the permissions to create (with terraform plan/apply
) and delete (with terraform destroy
) all the required resources in the accepter AWS account
Show IAM Policy
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"ec2:CreateRoute",
"ec2:DeleteRoute"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:YYYYYYYY:route-table/*"
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"ec2:DescribeVpcPeeringConnections",
"ec2:DescribeVpcs",
"ec2:ModifyVpcPeeringConnectionOptions",
"ec2:DescribeSubnets",
"ec2:DescribeVpcAttribute",
"ec2:DescribeRouteTables"
],
"Resource": "*"
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"ec2:AcceptVpcPeeringConnection",
"ec2:DeleteVpcPeeringConnection",
"ec2:CreateVpcPeeringConnection",
"ec2:RejectVpcPeeringConnection"
],
"Resource": [
"arn:aws:ec2:*:YYYYYYYY:vpc-peering-connection/*",
"arn:aws:ec2:*:YYYYYYYY:vpc/*"
]
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"ec2:DeleteTags",
"ec2:CreateTags"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:YYYYYYYY:vpc-peering-connection/*"
}
]
}
where YYYYYYYY
is the accepter AWS account ID.
For more information on IAM policies and permissions for VPC peering, see Creating and managing VPC peering connections.
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Name | Version |
---|---|
terraform | >= 0.13.0 |
aws | >= 2.0 |
null | >= 2.0 |
Name | Version |
---|---|
aws.accepter | >= 2.0 |
aws.requester | >= 2.0 |
Name | Source | Version |
---|---|---|
accepter | cloudposse/label/null | 0.24.1 |
requester | cloudposse/label/null | 0.24.1 |
this | cloudposse/label/null | 0.24.1 |
Name | Type |
---|---|
aws_route.accepter | resource |
aws_route.requester | resource |
aws_vpc_peering_connection.requester | resource |
aws_vpc_peering_connection_accepter.accepter | resource |
aws_vpc_peering_connection_options.accepter | resource |
aws_vpc_peering_connection_options.requester | resource |
aws_caller_identity.accepter | data source |
aws_caller_identity.requester | data source |
aws_region.accepter | data source |
aws_region.requester | data source |
aws_route_table.accepter | data source |
aws_route_table.requester | data source |
aws_subnet_ids.accepter | data source |
aws_subnet_ids.requester | data source |
aws_vpc.accepter | data source |
aws_vpc.requester | data source |
Name | Description | Type | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
accepter_allow_remote_vpc_dns_resolution | Allow accepter VPC to resolve public DNS hostnames to private IP addresses when queried from instances in the requester VPC | bool |
true |
no |
accepter_aws_access_key | Access key id to use in accepter account | string |
null |
no |
accepter_aws_assume_role_arn | Accepter AWS Assume Role ARN | string |
n/a | yes |
accepter_aws_profile | Profile used to assume accepter_aws_assume_role_arn | string |
"" |
no |
accepter_aws_secret_key | Secret access key to use in accepter account | string |
null |
no |
accepter_aws_token | Session token for validating temporary credentials | string |
null |
no |
accepter_region | Accepter AWS region | string |
n/a | yes |
accepter_subnet_tags | Only add peer routes to accepter VPC route tables of subnets matching these tags | map(string) |
{} |
no |
accepter_vpc_id | Accepter VPC ID filter | string |
"" |
no |
accepter_vpc_tags | Accepter VPC Tags filter | map(string) |
{} |
no |
add_attribute_tag | If true will add additional attribute tag to the requester and accceptor resources |
bool |
true |
no |
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 |
auto_accept | Automatically accept the peering | bool |
true |
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 |
{ |
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 |
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 |
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 |
requester_allow_remote_vpc_dns_resolution | Allow requester VPC to resolve public DNS hostnames to private IP addresses when queried from instances in the accepter VPC | bool |
true |
no |
requester_aws_access_key | Access key id to use in requester account | string |
null |
no |
requester_aws_assume_role_arn | Requester AWS Assume Role ARN | string |
n/a | yes |
requester_aws_profile | Profile used to assume requester_aws_assume_role_arn | string |
"" |
no |
requester_aws_secret_key | Secret access key to use in requester account | string |
null |
no |
requester_aws_token | Session token for validating temporary credentials | string |
null |
no |
requester_region | Requester AWS region | string |
n/a | yes |
requester_subnet_tags | Only add peer routes to requester VPC route tables of subnets matching these tags | map(string) |
{} |
no |
requester_vpc_id | Requester VPC ID filter | string |
"" |
no |
requester_vpc_tags | Requester VPC Tags filter | map(string) |
{} |
no |
skip_metadata_api_check | Don't use the credentials of EC2 instance profile | bool |
false |
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 |
Name | Description |
---|---|
accepter_accept_status | Accepter VPC peering connection request status |
accepter_connection_id | Accepter VPC peering connection ID |
requester_accept_status | Requester VPC peering connection request status |
requester_connection_id | Requester VPC peering connection ID |
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Check out these related projects.
- terraform-aws-vpc - Terraform Module that defines a VPC with public/private subnets across multiple AZs with Internet Gateways
- terraform-aws-vpc-peering - Terraform module to create a peering connection between two VPCs in the same AWS account
- terraform-aws-kops-vpc-peering - Terraform module to create a peering connection between a backing services VPC and a VPC created by Kops
For additional context, refer to some of these links.
- What is VPC Peering? - VPC peering connection is a networking connection between two VPCs that enables you to route traffic between them using private IPv4 addresses or IPv6 addresses.
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