Identity Federation for AWS 2.8 Release Notes

10 August 2017

The Utoolity team is pleased to present Identity Federation for AWS 2.8 – this release adds support for Confluence, and adds support for a destination URL to the AWS Management Console single sign-on (SSO) API.

You can now use the AWS Resources macro to create dashboards and share deep links to the AWS Management console with your team. Get started quickly with the AWS Resources blueprint to provide example dashboards for AWS services and resources and AWS account management.

If you are using Bamboo remote agents, please review the Identity Federation for AWS 2.8 Upgrade Notes for important information about this release.

Learn more and try it for free in:

• Bamboo

• Bitbucket

• Confluence

• Jira

On this page:

• 1 Highlights
  • 1.1 Use Identity Federation for AWS in Confluence
  • 1.2 Create deep links to the AWS Management Console with the AWS Resources macro
  • 1.3 Create dashboards to document AWS resources with the AWS Resources blueprint
  • 1.4 Specify a destination URL when using the AWS Management console single sign-on (SSO) API
• 2 Resolved issues
  • 2.1 Release 2.8.4
  • 2.2 Release 2.8.3
  • 2.3 Release 2.8.2
  • 2.4 Release 2.8.1
  • 2.5 Release 2.8.0

Highlights

Use Identity Federation for AWS in Confluence

You can now use Identity Federation for AWS in Confluence to gain the following benefits:

• Federated AWS access for Atlassian users – Add long-term AWS security credentials (IAM users) once, configure AWS access for Atlassian groups and Confluence add-ons with temporary credentials and fine grained permissions via IAM Policies thereafter (Identity Broker)

• Single sign-on (SSO) to the AWS Management Console – Grant your team SSO access to AWS accounts via the AWS Management Console Login menu

• Share AWS services and resources with your team

  • Use the AWS Resources macro to share deep links with optional single-sign-on (SSO) to the AWS Management Console

  • Use the AWS Resources blueprint to share and document your AWS resources with deep links and optional single sign-on (SSO) to the AWS Management Console

• REST API for temporary AWS security credentials – GET temporary AWS security credentials for Confluence apps via the REST API (Token Vendor)

Cross Product Support

Identity Federation for AWS aims to be a cross product solution and currently supports Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo (see the Identity Federation for AWS Compatibility Notes for details) - please don't hesitate to get in touch, if you are interested in support for other Atlassian products, we are eager to learn more about your use case and adjusting our respective roadmap accordingly.

•  The Confluence and Bitbucket editions of Identity Federation for AWS have been retired for technical reasons – learn about alternatives.

Create deep links to the AWS Management Console with the AWS Resources macro

You can now use the AWS Resources macro to create deep links with optional single-sign-on (SSO) to the AWS Management Console.

You can either quickly get a default link to the AWS Management Console, or configure the macro to provide a custom deep link with SSO.

Create dashboards to document AWS resources with the AWS Resources blueprint

You can now use the AWS Resources blueprint to provide dashboards to share and document your AWS resources with deep links and optional single sign-on (SSO) to the AWS Management Console.

The blueprint currently provides two page templates:

• AWS resources – Share deep links with optional SSO to AWS resources with your team

• AWS account – Document an AWS account and provide SSO links for your team

Resolved issues

Release 2.8.4

2018-06-27

This release addresses the following issues:

Core

• Improvements

  • IFAWS-938 – Improve core vs. quickstart CloudFormation template onboarding UX

Confluence

• Improvements

  • IFAWS-936 – Mark app as compatible with Confluence read-only mode 

Release 2.8.3

2018-04-10

This release addresses the following issues:

Core

• Improvements

  • IFAWS-890 – Surface support for additional ECR region us-gov-west-1

  • IFAWS-906 – Add support for extended IAM role session duration

Bamboo

• Bugs

  • IFAWS-847 – Add missing connector variables to AWS Credentials Variables task inline help

  • IFAWS-907 – Add missing connector JSON variable to AWS Credentials Variables task

  • IFAWS-908 – Fix PowerShell environment variable references in AWS Credentials Variables task inline help

  • IFAWS-935 – Fix PowerShell environment variable references in Amazon ECR Credentials Variables task inline help

Release 2.8.2

2018-01-08

This release addresses the following issues:

Core

• Improvements

  • IFAWS-855 – Surface support for additional ECR regions ap-south-1 and sa-east-1

  • IFAWS-856 – Rename EC2 Container Service to Elastic Container Service

  • IFAWS-857 – Surface new AWS region China (Ningxia) / cn-northwest-1

  • IFAWS-858 – Surface new AWS region EU (Paris) / eu-west-3

Release 2.8.1

2017-11-09

This release addresses the following issues:

Core

• Improvements

  • IFAWS-810 – Adjust access key moniker from 'Custom Name' to 'Key Alias'

  • IFAWS-811 – Surface support for additional ECR region ap-northeast-2

  • IFAWS-815 – Integrate updated app logos/banners

  • IFAWS-821 – Add option to disable implicit connector visibility for administrators

  • IFAWS-854 – Surface support for additional ECR region cn-north-1

Release 2.8.0

2017-08-10

This release addresses the following issues:

Core

• Improvements

  • IFAWS-705 – Add 'Manage AWS Connectors' entry to 'AWS Resources' page

  • IFAWS-727 – Add destination URL support to AWS Management Console SSO API

Bamboo

• Improvements

  • IFAWS-723 – Add connector ID to AWS Credentials Variables task result

• Tasks

  • IFAWS-572 – Drop support for Bamboo 5.9

Confluence

• Stories

  • IFAWS-92 – As a user, I want federated AWS access in Confluence

  • IFAWS-730 – As a user, I want to link AWS resources via a Confluence macro so that I can share deep links to the management console

  • IFAWS-745 – As a user, I want a Confluence blueprint so that I can share deep links to the AWS management console

  • IFAWS-746 – As a user, I want a Confluence page template so that I can share AWS resources

  • IFAWS-747 – As a user, I want a Confluence page template so that I can document an AWS account