👋🏻 hey folks, it me again. I am currently dealing with multiple AWS accounts. I am curious if Pulumi supports IAM role chaining using `aws.Provider`:

export const provider1 =
  new aws.Provider('provider-1', {
    assumeRole: { roleArn: 'arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/Role1' },
    region: aws.Region.APSoutheast2,
  });

export const provider2 =
  new aws.Provider('provider-2', {
    assumeRole: { roleArn: 'arn:aws:iam::999999999999:role/Role2' },
    region: aws.Region.APSoutheast2,
  }, { provider: provider1 });

what I want to achieve is when

provider2

tries to assume

Role2

it uses

Role1

from

provider1

, but that doesn't seem to work that way. Am I missing something?

As far as I understand it, role chaining in this direction (where you specify the role to use to assume another role) is explicitly not supported by the underlying SDK. Instead, role chaining via the standard SDKs works the opposite way, where a role specifies which other role is used when assuming it. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdkref/latest/guide/feature-assume-role-credentials.html I wouldn't be surprised if this changes soon though, since it's now possible to "forward" chain through the console.

Thanks Paul. I felt this was the case.

Separate providers. You can set up profiles for each one dependent on the previous if you want, or just have un-assuming ( ;) ) providers in the normal way.

Right. Thanks. Let me meditate on this for a bit. Appreciate your input!

We'll be adding support for role chaining in the next major version (v7) https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-aws/issues/4459. It will allow you to do something like this

const provider = new aws.Provider("provider", {
    // Users role will assume `baseRole` and then `baseRole` will assume `secondRole` which will provision the resources
    assumeRoles: [
        {roleArn: baseRole.arn},
        {roleArn: secondRole.arn}
    ],
});

This is awesome! Thank you Cory! Where can I follow along with the release schedule, so I can start testing things ASAP?

We just released the first v7-alpha release on Friday https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-aws/releases/tag/v7.0.0-alpha.1. Would love any feedback you can provide!

That's awesome. I will hopefully get some time end of this week / start of next week to play with this. Thanks much!

Nice! Thanks for the feedback 🙏