01 August 2014
The Utoolity team is pleased to present Tasks for AWS 2.4 – this release adds shared AWS security credentials management by integrating with Identity Federation for AWS, adjusts the inline nd adds logging of nested CloudFormation stack resources.
Highlights of this release:
Updates for this release:
Highlights
Shared AWS security credentials management
You can now manage AWS security credentials centrally by means of an integration with the Identity Federation for AWS add-on:
- add long-term AWS security credentials (IAM users) once, configure AWS access for Atlassian groups with temporary credentials and fine grained permissions via IAM Policies thereafter (Identity Broker)
- grant easy access to AWS resources directly via menu links to the AWS Management Console (see the User's Guide for details)
this can optionally include access to your elastic agents for administrators (or any other group with access to the resp. AWS Connector)
No Charge
Improved security of Inline credentials persistence
AWS security credentials of type Inline are now persisted through the
No Real Encryption
Logging of nested CloudFormation stack resources
Resource transition events of nested CloudFormation stacks are now logged in the Bamboo build log as well to provide immediate feedback on the actual cause of a build failure caused therein.
Details
This release addresses the following issues:
- Stories
- TAWS-39 - As a user, I want to manage AWS credentials centrally so that I do not need to enter them for every task
- Improvements
- TAWS-296 - Add logging of nested CloudFormation stack resources
- TAWS-281 - Adjust task credentials storage to facilitate Bamboo EncryptionService API
- Bugs
- TAWS-335 - Fix regressions on task execution on remote agents
- TAWS-298 - Verify add-on working after disable/enable cycle (own as well as IFAWS)
- TAWS-283 - Fix unhelpful error message 'Encountered internal plugin error'