Our team has a bunch of cron jobs running as an ECS scheduled task. Lately I'm adding a new job that requires the use of dynamodb, so I added the permissions in our terraform files, but keep on getting permission failure:
com.amazonaws.services.dynamodbv2.model.AmazonDynamoDBException:
User: arn:aws:sts::87********23:assumed-role/tcoe-tableau/74a408106bf543ee95dbe4841d00b0f7 is not authorized to perform: dynamodb:GetItem on resource: arn:aws:dynamodb:us-east-1:87********23:table/tcoe-candyjar-metrics (Service: AmazonDynamoDBv2;
Status Code: 400; Error Code: AccessDeniedException; Request ID: H52U8GCS1JAB74OJ6VSSEFLCQNVV4KQNSO5AEMVJF66Q9ASUAAJG; Proxy: null)
My related terraform are as follows:
First, here are the ecs cluster and task definition:
resource "aws_ecs_cluster" "ecs-cluster" {
name = "${var.stack_id}"
tags {
StackId = "${var.stack_id}"
}
lifecycle {
ignore_changes = [
"tags"
]
}
}
resource "aws_ecs_task_definition" "task-definition" {
family = "${var.stack_id}"
network_mode = "awsvpc"
requires_compatibilities = [
"FARGATE"
]
cpu = "${var.cpu}"
memory = "${var.task_memory}"
task_role_arn = "${aws_iam_role.task_role.arn}"
execution_role_arn = "${aws_iam_role.ecs_task_execution_role.arn}"
container_definitions = <<EOF
[
{
"logConfiguration": {
"logDriver": "awslogs",
"options": {
"awslogs-group": "${var.log_group}",
"awslogs-region": "us-east-1",
"awslogs-stream-prefix": "${var.stack_id}"
}
},
"ulimits": [
{
"name": "nofile",
"softLimit": 4096,
"hardLimit": 8192
}
],
"image": "${var.ecr_account}.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/${var.ecr_namespace}/${var.stack_id}:latest",
"environment": [
{"name": "ENV", "value": "${var.environment}" }
],
"essential": true,
"privileged": false,
"name": "${var.stack_id}",
"memory": ${var.memory}
}
]
EOF
tags {
StackId = "${var.stack_id}"
}
}
Then here's the task role for the task definition:
resource "aws_iam_role" "task_role" {
name = "${var.stack_id}"
assume_role_policy = <<EOF
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
${data.aws_caller_identity.current.account_id == var.dev_account ? "\"AWS\": [\"arn:aws:iam::61********19:role/${var.dev_role_name}\"]," : ""}
"Service": ["ecs-tasks.amazonaws.com"]
},
"Action": "sts:AssumeRole"
}
]
}
EOF
}
resource "aws_iam_instance_profile" "task_role_profile" {
name = "${var.stack_id}"
role = "${aws_iam_role.task_role.name}"
}
Finally here I'm adding the dynamodb-related policy to the task role:
resource "aws_iam_role_policy" "main" {
name = "${var.stack_id}-extra-policy"
role = "${aws_iam_role.task_role.id}"
policy = <<EOF
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"dynamodb:Scan",
"dynamodb:Query",
"dynamodb:List*",
"dynamodb:Get*",
"dynamodb:Describe*",
"dynamodb:DeleteItem",
"dynamodb:Put*",
"dynamodb:UpdateItem",
"dynamodb:BatchWriteItem"
],
"Resource": [
"arn:aws:dynamodb:us-east-1:87********23:table/tcoe-candyjar-metrics",
"arn:aws:dynamodb:us-east-1:87********23:table/tcoe-candyjar-metrics/index/*"
]
}
]
}
EOF
}
Am I doing something wrong here or missing anything?