Required permissions

You need the following permissions to deploy a custom AMI with Terraform:

• assume the ParallelCluster API role, which is in charge of interacting with the ParallelCluster API

• describe the AWS CloudFormation stack of the ParallelCluster API, to verify it exists and retrieve its parameters and outputs

JSON

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",		 	 	 
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:sts::111122223333:role/PCAPIUserRole-*",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Sid": "AssumePCAPIUserRole"
        },
        {
            "Action": [
                "cloudformation:DescribeStacks"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:cloudformation:us-east-1:111122223333:stack/*",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Sid": "CloudFormation"
        }
    ]
}