Identity Federation for AWS 2.5 Release Notes

28 July 2016

The Utoolity team is pleased to present Identity Federation for AWS 2.5 – this release adds an option to the AWS Credentials Variables task in Bamboo for returning AWS IAM caller identity details so that these can be made available to other tools by injecting them via variables into AWS unaware tasks like the Bamboo Script task, and adds a REST API for AWS IAM caller identity details.

If you are using Bamboo remote agents, please review the Identity Federation for AWS 2.5 Upgrade Notes for important information about this release.

Highlights

AWS Credentials Variables task for Bamboo gains option to return IAM caller identity

Use the AWS Credentials Variables task in Bamboo to return details about the IAM identity whose credentials are used to call the API (notable the AWS account ID and user ID) and make them available to other tools by injecting them into AWS unaware tasks like the Bamboo Script task.

AWS Credentials Variables task and Tasks for AWS

The AWS Credentials Variables task complements the dedicated AWS build and deployment tasks offered by Tasks for AWS by providing managed temporary AWS security credentials as Bamboo variables for tools that are not directly integrated with Identity Federation for AWS, but accept AWS credentials via the command line or environment variables, for example the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

Usage of the AWS Credentials Variables task is free for Tasks for AWS licensees, see the Licensing & Purchasing FAQ for details.

AWS IAM Caller Identity retrieval via REST API

Retrieve details about the IAM identity whose credentials are used to call the API (notable the AWS account ID and user ID) via the REST API so that developers can easily integrate this feature into their own solutions.

Details

This release addresses the following issues:

Stories
- IFAWS-547 – As a developer, I want a REST API to retrieve the caller identity so that I gain usability and debugging improvements
- IFAWS-548 – As a user, I want a task to create Bamboo variables from the AWS caller identity details so that I can reuse them in scripts
Improvements
- IFAWS-574 – Switch scope column values to lozenges
- IFAWS-590 (UAA-136) – Improve communication of connector variable replacement errors

Release 2.5.3

2016-12-20

This release addresses the following issues:

Improvements
- IFAWS-632 – Surface new AWS region ca-central-1
- IFAWS-640 – Include additional details in 'Add/Edit Account' dialog error messages
- IFAWS-641 – Surface new AWS region eu-west-2

Release 2.5.2

2016-11-02

This release addresses the following issues:

Improvements
- IFAWS-611 – Surface support for additional ECR regions ap-southeast-1, ap-southeast-2, ap-northeast-1, eu-central-1 and us-west-1
- IFAWS-612 – Refactor configuration page to match Automation with AWS approach
- IFAWS-614 (UAA-221) – Add temporary credentials refreshment for 'IAM Role for EC2 (Agent)' principal type
- IFAWS-615 – Surface new AWS region us-east-2
- IFAWS-626 – Add 'Manage AWS Connectors' entry to 'AWS Resources' menu
Bugs
- IFAWS-613 – Adjust/Fix help links to use the stable tiny URL where applicable
- IFAWS-616 (UAA-222) – Fix session duration default for 'IAM Role for EC2 (Agent)' principal type

Release 2.5.1

2016-10-02

This release addresses the following issues:

Improvements
- IFAWS-597 – Add support for additional ECR regions ap-southeast-1, ap-southeast-2, ap-northeast-1, eu-central-1 and us-west-1
- IFAWS-599 – Provide CloudFormation template to ease provisioning required IAM resources