Identity Management for Accessing AI Development Environments

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To set up identity management for accessing AI (Artificial Intelligence) development environments, you'll typically need to integrate an Identity and Access Management (IAM) system that can handle user authentication and authorization. For cloud-based AI development environments, most cloud providers offer their own IAM services. In this context, let's focus on creating IAM roles and policies which could be used to grant access to AI services.

We will consider using AWS as our cloud provider, due to its comprehensive AI services and robust IAM capabilities. We'll write a Pulumi program in Python that sets up an AWS IAM role with policies attached that grants access to specific AWS AI services like Amazon SageMaker, which is a fully managed service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models quickly.

Below is the Pulumi program in Python that accomplishes this:

1. We define an AWS IAM role specifically for our AI development environment.
2. We attach a policy to the role that grants necessary permissions to use Amazon SageMaker and other AI services.
3. We export the IAM role ARN so it can be referenced elsewhere, such as in configuration settings or by team members who need to configure their AWS CLI to assume this role.

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_aws as aws

# Create an IAM role that will be used by developers working on AI services.
ai_dev_role = aws.iam.Role("aiDevRole",
    assume_role_policy="""{
        "Version": "2012-10-17",
        "Statement": [{
            "Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": {
                "Service": "sagemaker.amazonaws.com"
            }
        }]
    }""")

# Define a policy document that outlines the permissions required for AI development.
# The permissions here are examples and should be modified according to your specific needs.
ai_permission_policy = {
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [{
        "Effect": "Allow",
        "Action": [
            "sagemaker:*",
            "ec2:CreateInstance",
            "ec2:DescribeInstances"
            # Include additional actions as required
        ],
        "Resource": "*"
    }]
}

# Create the policy and attach it to the IAM role.
ai_policy = aws.iam.Policy("aiPolicy",
    policy=ai_permission_policy)

aws.iam.RolePolicyAttachment("aiRolePolicyAttachment",
    role=ai_dev_role.name,
    policy_arn=ai_policy.arn)

# Export the IAM role ARN so it can be used to grant access to the AI services.
pulumi.export('ai_dev_role_arn', ai_dev_role.arn)
```

In the program above, we start by importing the necessary modules. We then create an IAM role with an `assume_role_policy` tailored for Amazon SageMaker. The role is assigned a policy which grants permissions on SageMaker and related services. The `pulumi.export` line ensures that the role's ARN is outputted once the deployment is complete, which makes it easy to reference in the future.

Please ensure you have the right permissions and configurations set up before proceeding with a Pulumi deployment. To deploy this code, save it to a file (main.py), and run `pulumi up` via the command line.

This program is a simple starting point. In a real-world application, you would likely need to further refine the permissions to adhere to the principle of least privilege, add more resources, such as specific SageMaker resources, and handle the scenario where multiple roles or policies are needed.