prm-mhs-infra

Set-up of infrastructure for MHS.

Prerequisites

AWS helpers

This repository imports shared AWS helpers from prm-deductions-support-infra. They can be found utils directory after running any task from tasks file.

Access to AWS

In order to get sufficient access to work with terraform or AWS CLI:

Make sure to unset the AWS variables:

unset AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
unset AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
unset AWS_SESSION_TOKEN

As a note, the following set-up is based on the README of assume-role tool

Set up a profile for each role you would like to assume in ~/.aws/config, for example:

[profile default]
region = eu-west-2
output = json

[profile admin]
region = eu-west-2
role_arn = <role-arn>
mfa_serial = <mfa-arn>
source_profile = default

The source_profile needs to match your profile in ~/.aws/credentials.

[default]
aws_access_key_id = <your-aws-access-key-id>
aws_secret_access_key = <your-aws-secret-access-key>

Assume role with elevated permissions

Install assume-role locally:

brew install remind101/formulae/assume-role

Run the following command with the profile configured in your ~/.aws/config:

assume-role admin

Run assume-role with dojo:

Run the following command with the profile configured in your ~/.aws/config:

eval $(dojo "echo <mfa-code> | assume-role admin"

Run the following command to confirm the role was assumed correctly:

aws sts get-caller-identity

AWS SSM Parameters Design Principles

When creating the new ssm keys, please follow the agreed convention as per the design specified below:

• all parts of the keys are lower case
• the words are separated by dashes (kebab case)
• env is optional

Design:

Please follow this design to ensure the ssm keys are easy to maintain and navigate through:

Type	Design	Example
User-specified	/repo/<env>?/user-input/	/repo/${var.environment}/user-input/db-username
Auto-generated	/repo/<env>?/output/<name-of-git-repo>/	/repo/output/prm-deductions-base-infra/root-zone-id