iam

Create a new IAM user on Amazon Web Services

Create an IAM user using the iam-user Terraform Registry module. If you want your AWS access secret to be encrypted consider generating a PGP key using keybase.

Authenticate

Assumption here is that we are using an owner account or an account with administrator permissions.

aws configure

You'll be prompted to supply

• access key
• secret key
• region
• output format

Copy sample configuration

cp terraform.tfvars.sample terraform.tfvars

Edit terraform.tfvars and update

• name
• permissions_boundary
• pgp_key
• region

Create a new user account

./create-iam.sh

Repeat the Authenticate step above with your new credentials. Don't forget to decrypt your secret if you supplied a PGP key.

Destroy the user account

./destroy-iam.sh