AWS SPIFFE Workload Helper is a light-weight tool intended to assist in providing a workload with credentials for AWS using its SPIFFE identity.
It provides a more native experience when using SPIFFE identities compared to
the rolesanywhere-credential-helper
released by AWS, and is intended to be used in place of
rolesanywhere-credential-helper.
Currently, the helper only supports authenticating to AWS using an X.509 SVID via AWS Roles Anywhere.
Follow the guidance at
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rolesanywhere/latest/userguide/getting-started.html
and substitute the usage of rolesanywhere-credential-helper with this utility.
The aws-spiffe-workload-helper binary is available for a range of
architectures within the
GitHub Releases
of this repository.
Download the appropriate artifact for your architecture, and extract the .tar.gz. The binary can then be placed somewhere on the system where it will be accessible to workloads that use the AWS SDKs or CLIs. It may be beneficial to ensure it is in a location that is within your PATH.
The aws-spiffe-workload-helper is also distributed within an OCI image. This
may be useful as a source of the binary if you are building your own image and
require this binary within it.
These images are published to the GitHub Container Registry: ghcr.io/spiffe/aws-spiffe-workload-helper:latest
COPY --from=ghcr.io/spiffe/aws-spiffe-workload-helper:latest /ko-app/cmd /aws-spiffe-workload-helperThe x509-credential-process command exchanges an X509 SVID for a short-lived
set of AWS credentials using the AWS Roles Anywhere API. It returns the
credentials to STDOUT, in the format expected by AWS SDKs and CLIs when invoking
an external credential process.
The command fetches the X509-SVID from the SPIFFE Workload API. The location of
the SPIFFE Workload API endpoint should be specified using the
SPIFFE_ENDPOINT_SOCKET environment variable or the --workload-api-addr flag.
Example usage:
$ aws-spiffe-workload-helper x509-credential-process \
--trust-anchor-arn arn:aws:rolesanywhere:us-east-1:123456789012:trust-anchor/0000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 \
--profile-arn arn:aws:rolesanywhere:us-east-1:123456789012:profile/0000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 \
--role-arn arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/example-role \
--workload-api-addr unix:///opt/workload-api.sock| Flag | Required | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| role-arn | Yes | The ARN of the role to assume. Required. | arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/example-role |
| profile-arn | Yes | The ARN of the Roles Anywhere profile to use. Required. | arn:aws:rolesanywhere:us-east-1:123456789012:profile/0000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000000 |
| trust-anchor-arn | Yes | The ARN of the Roles Anywhere trust anchor to use. Required. | arn:aws:rolesanywhere:us-east-1:123456789012:trust-anchor/0000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 |
| region | No | Overrides AWS region to use when exchanging the SVID for AWS credentials. Optional. | us-east-1 |
| session-duration | No | The duration, in seconds, of the resulting session. Optional. Can range from 15 minutes (900) to 12 hours (43200). | 3600 |
| workload-api-addr | No | Overrides the address of the Workload API endpoint that will be use to fetch the X509 SVID. If unspecified, the value from the SPIFFE_ENDPOINT_SOCKET environment variable will be used. | unix:///opt/my/path/workload.sock |
The x509-credential-file command starts a long-lived daemon which exchanges
an X509 SVID for a short-lived set of AWS credentials using the AWS Roles
Anywhere API. It writes the credentials to a specified file in the format
supported by AWS SDKs and CLIs as a "credential file".
It repeats this exchange process when the AWS credentials are more than 50% of the way through their lifetime, ensuring that a fresh set of credentials are always available.
Whilst the x509-credentials-process flow should be preferred as it does not
cause credentials to be written to the filesystem, the x509-credentials-file
flow may be useful in scenarios where you need to provide credentials to legacy
SDKs or CLIs that do not support the credential_process configuration.
The command fetches the X509-SVID from the SPIFFE Workload API. The location of
the SPIFFE Workload API endpoint should be specified using the
SPIFFE_ENDPOINT_SOCKET environment variable or the --workload-api-addr flag.
$ aws-spiffe-workload-helper x509-credential-file \
--trust-anchor-arn arn:aws:rolesanywhere:us-east-1:123456789012:trust-anchor/0000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 \
--profile-arn arn:aws:rolesanywhere:us-east-1:123456789012:profile/0000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 \
--role-arn arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/example-role \
--workload-api-addr unix:///opt/workload-api.sock \
--aws-credentials-file /opt/my-aws-credentials-file| Flag | Required | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| role-arn | Yes | The ARN of the role to assume. Required. | arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/example-role |
| profile-arn | Yes | The ARN of the Roles Anywhere profile to use. Required. | arn:aws:rolesanywhere:us-east-1:123456789012:profile/0000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000000 |
| trust-anchor-arn | Yes | The ARN of the Roles Anywhere trust anchor to use. Required. | arn:aws:rolesanywhere:us-east-1:123456789012:trust-anchor/0000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 |
| region | No | Overrides AWS region to use when exchanging the SVID for AWS credentials. Optional. | us-east-1 |
| session-duration | No | The duration, in seconds, of the resulting session. Optional. Can range from 15 minutes (900) to 12 hours (43200). | 3600 |
| workload-api-addr | No | Overrides the address of the Workload API endpoint that will be use to fetch the X509 SVID. If unspecified, the value from the SPIFFE_ENDPOINT_SOCKET environment variable will be used. | unix:///opt/my/path/workload.sock |
| aws-credentials-path | Yes | The path to the AWS credentials file to write. | `/opt/my-aws-credentials-file |
| force | No | If set, failures loading the existing AWS credentials file will be ignored and the contents overwritten. | |
| replace | No | If set, the AWS credentials file will be replaced if it exists. This will remove any profiles not written by this tool. |
To configure AWS SDKs and CLIs to use Roles Anywhere and SPIFFE for authentication, you will modify the AWS configuration file.
By default, AWS SDKs and CLIs will expect this file to be located at
~/.aws/config. This location can be customized using the AWS_CONFIG_FILE
environment variable.
Example configuration:
[default]
credential_process = /usr/bin/aws-spiffe-workload-helper x509-credential-process --profile-arn arn:aws:rolesanywhere:us-east-1:123456789012:profile/0000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
--trust-anchor-arn arn:aws:rolesanywhere:us-east-1:123456789012:trust-anchor/0000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 --role-arn arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/example-roleYou can learn more about external credential processes at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-sourcing-external.html
We welcome contributions to this project. If you require any assistance, please get in contact via the SPIFFE Slack.
This is a "tiny-project".
Dispute resolution is handled via escalation to the SPIFFE Steering Committee (SSC).