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

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Example of running atmos to manage infrastructure from our Quick Start tutorial.

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

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  = "cloudposse/ssm-parameter-store/aws"
  # Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version
  # version = "x.x.x"

  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  = "cloudposse/ssm-parameter-store/aws"
  # Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version
  # version = "x.x.x"

  parameter_read = ["/cp/prod/app/database/master_password"]
}

Available targets:

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

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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

This project is under active development, and we encourage contributions from our community.

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For 🐛 bug reports & feature requests, please use the issue tracker.

In general, PRs are welcome. We follow the typical "fork-and-pull" Git workflow.

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