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aws.iam.UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive

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    Resource for maintaining exclusive management of managed IAM policies assigned to an AWS IAM (Identity & Access Management) user.

    !> This resource takes exclusive ownership over managed IAM policies attached to a user. This includes removal of managed IAM policies which are not explicitly configured. To prevent persistent drift, ensure any aws.iam.UserPolicyAttachment resources managed alongside this resource are included in the policyArns argument.

    Destruction of this resource means Terraform will no longer manage reconciliation of the configured policy attachments. It will not detach the configured policies from the user.

    Example Usage

    Basic Usage

    import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
import * as aws from "@pulumi/aws";

const example = new aws.iam.UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive("example", {
    userName: exampleAwsIamUser.name,
    policyArns: [exampleAwsIamPolicy.arn],
});

    import pulumi
import pulumi_aws as aws

example = aws.iam.UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive("example",
    user_name=example_aws_iam_user["name"],
    policy_arns=[example_aws_iam_policy["arn"]])

    package main

import (
	"github.com/pulumi/pulumi-aws/sdk/v7/go/aws/iam"
	"github.com/pulumi/pulumi/sdk/v3/go/pulumi"
)

func main() {
	pulumi.Run(func(ctx *pulumi.Context) error {
		_, err := iam.NewUserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive(ctx, "example", &iam.UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveArgs{
			UserName: pulumi.Any(exampleAwsIamUser.Name),
			PolicyArns: pulumi.StringArray{
				exampleAwsIamPolicy.Arn,
			},
		})
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		return nil
	})
}

    using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Pulumi;
using Aws = Pulumi.Aws;

return await Deployment.RunAsync(() => 
{
    var example = new Aws.Iam.UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive("example", new()
    {
        UserName = exampleAwsIamUser.Name,
        PolicyArns = new[]
        {
            exampleAwsIamPolicy.Arn,
        },
    });

});

    package generated_program;

import com.pulumi.Context;
import com.pulumi.Pulumi;
import com.pulumi.core.Output;
import com.pulumi.aws.iam.UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive;
import com.pulumi.aws.iam.UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveArgs;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Map;
import java.io.File;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

public class App {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Pulumi.run(App::stack);
    }

    public static void stack(Context ctx) {
        var example = new UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive("example", UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveArgs.builder()
            .userName(exampleAwsIamUser.name())
            .policyArns(exampleAwsIamPolicy.arn())
            .build());

    }
}

    resources:
  example:
    type: aws:iam:UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive
    properties:
      userName: ${exampleAwsIamUser.name}
      policyArns:
        - ${exampleAwsIamPolicy.arn}

    Disallow Managed IAM Policies

    To automatically remove any configured managed IAM policies, set the policyArns argument to an empty list.

    This will not prevent managed IAM policies from being assigned to a user via Terraform (or any other interface). This resource enables bringing managed IAM policy assignments into a configured state, however, this reconciliation happens only when apply is proactively run.

    import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
import * as aws from "@pulumi/aws";

const example = new aws.iam.UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive("example", {
    userName: exampleAwsIamUser.name,
    policyArns: [],
});

    import pulumi
import pulumi_aws as aws

example = aws.iam.UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive("example",
    user_name=example_aws_iam_user["name"],
    policy_arns=[])

    package main

import (
	"github.com/pulumi/pulumi-aws/sdk/v7/go/aws/iam"
	"github.com/pulumi/pulumi/sdk/v3/go/pulumi"
)

func main() {
	pulumi.Run(func(ctx *pulumi.Context) error {
		_, err := iam.NewUserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive(ctx, "example", &iam.UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveArgs{
			UserName:   pulumi.Any(exampleAwsIamUser.Name),
			PolicyArns: pulumi.StringArray{},
		})
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		return nil
	})
}

    using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Pulumi;
using Aws = Pulumi.Aws;

return await Deployment.RunAsync(() => 
{
    var example = new Aws.Iam.UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive("example", new()
    {
        UserName = exampleAwsIamUser.Name,
        PolicyArns = new[] {},
    });

});

    package generated_program;

import com.pulumi.Context;
import com.pulumi.Pulumi;
import com.pulumi.core.Output;
import com.pulumi.aws.iam.UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive;
import com.pulumi.aws.iam.UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveArgs;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Map;
import java.io.File;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

public class App {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Pulumi.run(App::stack);
    }

    public static void stack(Context ctx) {
        var example = new UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive("example", UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveArgs.builder()
            .userName(exampleAwsIamUser.name())
            .policyArns()
            .build());

    }
}

    resources:
  example:
    type: aws:iam:UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive
    properties:
      userName: ${exampleAwsIamUser.name}
      policyArns: []

    Create UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive Resource

    Resources are created with functions called constructors. To learn more about declaring and configuring resources, see Resources.

    Constructor syntax

    new UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive(name: string, args: UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveArgs, opts?: CustomResourceOptions);
    @overload
def UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive(resource_name: str,
                                   args: UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveArgs,
                                   opts: Optional[ResourceOptions] = None)

@overload
def UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive(resource_name: str,
                                   opts: Optional[ResourceOptions] = None,
                                   policy_arns: Optional[Sequence[str]] = None,
                                   user_name: Optional[str] = None)
    func NewUserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive(ctx *Context, name string, args UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveArgs, opts ...ResourceOption) (*UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive, error)
    public UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive(string name, UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveArgs args, CustomResourceOptions? opts = null)
    public UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive(String name, UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveArgs args)
public UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive(String name, UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveArgs args, CustomResourceOptions options)

    type: aws:iam:UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive
properties: # The arguments to resource properties.
options: # Bag of options to control resource's behavior.

    Parameters

    name string
    The unique name of the resource.
    args UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveArgs
    The arguments to resource properties.
    opts CustomResourceOptions
    Bag of options to control resource's behavior.
    resource_name str
    The unique name of the resource.
    args UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveArgs
    The arguments to resource properties.
    opts ResourceOptions
    Bag of options to control resource's behavior.
    ctx Context
    Context object for the current deployment.
    name string
    The unique name of the resource.
    args UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveArgs
    The arguments to resource properties.
    opts ResourceOption
    Bag of options to control resource's behavior.
    name string
    The unique name of the resource.
    args UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveArgs
    The arguments to resource properties.
    opts CustomResourceOptions
    Bag of options to control resource's behavior.
    name String
    The unique name of the resource.
    args UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveArgs
    The arguments to resource properties.
    options CustomResourceOptions
    Bag of options to control resource's behavior.

    Constructor example

    The following reference example uses placeholder values for all input properties.

    var userPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveResource = new Aws.Iam.UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive("userPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveResource", new()
{
    PolicyArns = new[]
    {
        "string",
    },
    UserName = "string",
});

    example, err := iam.NewUserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive(ctx, "userPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveResource", &iam.UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveArgs{
	PolicyArns: pulumi.StringArray{
		pulumi.String("string"),
	},
	UserName: pulumi.String("string"),
})

    var userPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveResource = new UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive("userPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveResource", UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveArgs.builder()
    .policyArns("string")
    .userName("string")
    .build());

    user_policy_attachments_exclusive_resource = aws.iam.UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive("userPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveResource",
    policy_arns=["string"],
    user_name="string")

    const userPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveResource = new aws.iam.UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive("userPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveResource", {
    policyArns: ["string"],
    userName: "string",
});

    type: aws:iam:UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive
properties:
    policyArns:
        - string
    userName: string

    UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive Resource Properties

    To learn more about resource properties and how to use them, see Inputs and Outputs in the Architecture and Concepts docs.

    Inputs

    In Python, inputs that are objects can be passed either as argument classes or as dictionary literals.

    The UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive resource accepts the following input properties:

    PolicyArns List<string>
    A list of managed IAM policy ARNs to be attached to the user. Policies attached to this user but not configured in this argument will be removed.
    UserName string
    IAM user name.
    PolicyArns []string
    A list of managed IAM policy ARNs to be attached to the user. Policies attached to this user but not configured in this argument will be removed.
    UserName string
    IAM user name.
    policyArns List<String>
    A list of managed IAM policy ARNs to be attached to the user. Policies attached to this user but not configured in this argument will be removed.
    userName String
    IAM user name.
    policyArns string[]
    A list of managed IAM policy ARNs to be attached to the user. Policies attached to this user but not configured in this argument will be removed.
    userName string
    IAM user name.
    policy_arns Sequence[str]
    A list of managed IAM policy ARNs to be attached to the user. Policies attached to this user but not configured in this argument will be removed.
    user_name str
    IAM user name.
    policyArns List<String>
    A list of managed IAM policy ARNs to be attached to the user. Policies attached to this user but not configured in this argument will be removed.
    userName String
    IAM user name.

    Outputs

    All input properties are implicitly available as output properties. Additionally, the UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive resource produces the following output properties:

    Id string
    The provider-assigned unique ID for this managed resource.
    Id string
    The provider-assigned unique ID for this managed resource.
    id String
    The provider-assigned unique ID for this managed resource.
    id string
    The provider-assigned unique ID for this managed resource.
    id str
    The provider-assigned unique ID for this managed resource.
    id String
    The provider-assigned unique ID for this managed resource.

    Look up Existing UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive Resource

    Get an existing UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive resource’s state with the given name, ID, and optional extra properties used to qualify the lookup.

    public static get(name: string, id: Input<ID>, state?: UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveState, opts?: CustomResourceOptions): UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive
    @staticmethod
def get(resource_name: str,
        id: str,
        opts: Optional[ResourceOptions] = None,
        policy_arns: Optional[Sequence[str]] = None,
        user_name: Optional[str] = None) -> UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive
    func GetUserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive(ctx *Context, name string, id IDInput, state *UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveState, opts ...ResourceOption) (*UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive, error)
    public static UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive Get(string name, Input<string> id, UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveState? state, CustomResourceOptions? opts = null)
    public static UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive get(String name, Output<String> id, UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusiveState state, CustomResourceOptions options)
    resources:  _:    type: aws:iam:UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive    get:      id: ${id}
    name
    The unique name of the resulting resource.
    id
    The unique provider ID of the resource to lookup.
    state
    Any extra arguments used during the lookup.
    opts
    A bag of options that control this resource's behavior.
    resource_name
    The unique name of the resulting resource.
    id
    The unique provider ID of the resource to lookup.
    name
    The unique name of the resulting resource.
    id
    The unique provider ID of the resource to lookup.
    state
    Any extra arguments used during the lookup.
    opts
    A bag of options that control this resource's behavior.
    name
    The unique name of the resulting resource.
    id
    The unique provider ID of the resource to lookup.
    state
    Any extra arguments used during the lookup.
    opts
    A bag of options that control this resource's behavior.
    name
    The unique name of the resulting resource.
    id
    The unique provider ID of the resource to lookup.
    state
    Any extra arguments used during the lookup.
    opts
    A bag of options that control this resource's behavior.
    The following state arguments are supported:
    PolicyArns List<string>
    A list of managed IAM policy ARNs to be attached to the user. Policies attached to this user but not configured in this argument will be removed.
    UserName string
    IAM user name.
    PolicyArns []string
    A list of managed IAM policy ARNs to be attached to the user. Policies attached to this user but not configured in this argument will be removed.
    UserName string
    IAM user name.
    policyArns List<String>
    A list of managed IAM policy ARNs to be attached to the user. Policies attached to this user but not configured in this argument will be removed.
    userName String
    IAM user name.
    policyArns string[]
    A list of managed IAM policy ARNs to be attached to the user. Policies attached to this user but not configured in this argument will be removed.
    userName string
    IAM user name.
    policy_arns Sequence[str]
    A list of managed IAM policy ARNs to be attached to the user. Policies attached to this user but not configured in this argument will be removed.
    user_name str
    IAM user name.
    policyArns List<String>
    A list of managed IAM policy ARNs to be attached to the user. Policies attached to this user but not configured in this argument will be removed.
    userName String
    IAM user name.

    Import

    Using pulumi import, import exclusive management of managed IAM policy assignments using the userName. For example:

    $ pulumi import aws:iam/userPolicyAttachmentsExclusive:UserPolicyAttachmentsExclusive example MyUser

    To learn more about importing existing cloud resources, see Importing resources.

    Package Details

    Repository
    AWS Classic pulumi/pulumi-aws
    License
    Apache-2.0
    Notes
    This Pulumi package is based on the aws Terraform Provider.
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