New Data Source : aws_iam_roles

[Marcvd316]

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Description

It would be helpful to have a terraform data source that lists all the AWS IAM roles that exists in an account. An example of a use case where this would be useful is for roles created by AWS SSO in different accounts in an AWS Organization, the roles end up with a known prefix, but the last few characters are randomly generated (e.g.: AWSReservedSSO_Administrators_3785d47bba2d9cde4).

New or Affected Resource(s)

• data.aws_iam_roles

Potential Terraform Configuration

data "aws_iam_roles" "administrators" {
  filter {
      name   = "role-name"
      values = ["AWSReservedSSO_Administrators_*"]
  }
}

References

• IAM REST API ListRoles : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/APIReference/API_ListRoles.html
• AWS CLI implementation of that API : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/iam/list-roles.html

[michelzanini]

I had exactly that same requirement today 👍

[sidewinder12s]

Related to the ask: #14173

A resource like this more closely matches similar lookup requirements like the aws_subnet_ids data source.

[seddarj]

Hello, I've taken a bit of a different approach to solve this issue in #18048. Instead of listing all roles based on a filter, I try to find the role that matches the Permission Set for which it was created.

Feel free to have a look there and to comment on it 😅

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