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# aws_s3 – manage objects in S3

- Synopsis

- Requirements

- Parameters

- Notes

- Examples

- Return Values

- Status

## Synopsis

- This module allows the user to manage S3 buckets and the objects within them. Includes support for creating and deleting both objects and buckets, retrieving objects as files or strings and generating download links. This module has a dependency on boto3 and botocore.

## Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- boto

- boto3

- botocore

- python >= 2.6

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
aws_access_key string |  | AWS access key id. If not set then the value of the AWS_ACCESS_KEY environment variable is used. aliases: ec2_access_key, access_key
aws_secret_key string |  | AWS secret key. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECRET_KEY environment variable is used. aliases: ec2_secret_key, secret_key
bucket - / required |  | Bucket name.
debug_botocore_endpoint_logs boolean added in 2.8 | Choices: no ← yes | Use a botocore.endpoint logger to parse the unique (rather than total) "resource:action" API calls made during a task, outputing the set to the resource_actions key in the task results. Use the aws_resource_action callback to output to total list made during a playbook. The ANSIBLE_DEBUG_BOTOCORE_LOGS environment variable may also be used.
dest - |  | The destination file path when downloading an object/key with a GET operation.
dualstack boolean added in 2.7 | Choices: no ← yes | Enables Amazon S3 Dual-Stack Endpoints, allowing S3 communications using both IPv4 and IPv6. Requires at least botocore version 1.4.45.
ec2_url string |  | Url to use to connect to EC2 or your Eucalyptus cloud (by default the module will use EC2 endpoints). Ignored for modules where region is required. Must be specified for all other modules if region is not used. If not set then the value of the EC2_URL environment variable, if any, is used.
encrypt boolean | Choices: no yes ← | When set for PUT mode, asks for server-side encryption.
encryption_kms_key_id - added in 2.7 |  | KMS key id to use when encrypting objects using `aws:kms` encryption. Ignored if encryption is not `aws:kms`
encryption_mode - added in 2.7 | Choices: AES256 ← aws:kms | What encryption mode to use if `encrypt` is set
expiration - | Default: 600 | Time limit (in seconds) for the URL generated and returned by S3/Walrus when performing a mode=put or mode=geturl operation.
headers - |  | Custom headers for PUT operation, as a dictionary of 'key=value' and 'key=value,key=value'.
ignore_nonexistent_bucket boolean | Choices: no yes | Overrides initial bucket lookups in case bucket or iam policies are restrictive. Example: a user may have the GetObject permission but no other permissions. In this case using the option mode: get will fail without specifying ignore_nonexistent_bucket: True.
marker - |  | Specifies the key to start with when using list mode. Object keys are returned in alphabetical order, starting with key after the marker in order.
max_keys - | Default: 1000 | Max number of results to return in list mode, set this if you want to retrieve fewer than the default 1000 keys.
metadata - |  | Metadata for PUT operation, as a dictionary of 'key=value' and 'key=value,key=value'.
mode - / required | Choices: get put delete create geturl getstr delobj list | Switches the module behaviour between put (upload), get (download), geturl (return download url, Ansible 1.3+), getstr (download object as string (1.3+)), list (list keys, Ansible 2.0+), create (bucket), delete (bucket), and delobj (delete object, Ansible 2.0+).
object - |  | Keyname of the object inside the bucket. Can be used to create "virtual directories", see examples.
overwrite - | Default: "always" | Force overwrite either locally on the filesystem or remotely with the object/key. Used with PUT and GET operations. Boolean or one of [always, never, different], true is equal to 'always' and false is equal to 'never', new in 2.0. When this is set to 'different', the md5 sum of the local file is compared with the 'ETag' of the object/key in S3. The ETag may or may not be an MD5 digest of the object data. See the ETag response header here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/RESTCommonResponseHeaders.html aliases: force
permission - | Default: "private" | This option lets the user set the canned permissions on the object/bucket that are created. The permissions that can be set are 'private', 'public-read', 'public-read-write', 'authenticated-read' for a bucket or 'private', 'public-read', 'public-read-write', 'aws-exec-read', 'authenticated-read', 'bucket-owner-read', 'bucket-owner-full-control' for an object. Multiple permissions can be specified as a list.
prefix - | Default: "" | Limits the response to keys that begin with the specified prefix for list mode
profile string |  | Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto >= 2.24.0.
region string |  | AWS region to create the bucket in. If not set then the value of the AWS_REGION and EC2_REGION environment variables are checked, followed by the aws_region and ec2_region settings in the Boto config file. If none of those are set the region defaults to the S3 Location: US Standard. Prior to ansible 1.8 this parameter could be specified but had no effect. aliases: aws_region, ec2_region
retries - | Default: 0 | On recoverable failure, how many times to retry before actually failing.
rgw boolean | Choices: no ← yes | Enable Ceph RGW S3 support. This option requires an explicit url via s3_url.
s3_url - |  | S3 URL endpoint for usage with Ceph, Eucalyptus and fakes3 etc. Otherwise assumes AWS. aliases: S3_URL
security_token string |  | AWS STS security token. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variable is used. aliases: access_token
src - |  | The source file path when performing a PUT operation.
validate_certs boolean | Choices: no yes ← | When set to "no", SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.
version - |  | Version ID of the object inside the bucket. Can be used to get a specific version of a file if versioning is enabled in the target bucket.

## Notes

Note

- In 2.4, this module has been renamed from `s3` into aws_s3.

- If parameters are not set within the module, the following environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence `AWS_URL` or `EC2_URL`, `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` or `AWS_ACCESS_KEY` or `EC2_ACCESS_KEY`, `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY` or `AWS_SECRET_KEY` or `EC2_SECRET_KEY`, `AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN` or `EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN`, `AWS_REGION` or `EC2_REGION`

- Ansible uses the boto configuration file (typically ~/.boto) if no credentials are provided. See https://boto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html

- `AWS_REGION` or `EC2_REGION` can be typically be used to specify the AWS region, when required, but this can also be configured in the boto config file

## Examples

    - name: Simple PUT operation
      aws_s3:
        bucket: mybucket
        object: /my/desired/key.txt
        src: /usr/local/myfile.txt
        mode: put

    - name: Simple PUT operation in Ceph RGW S3
      aws_s3:
        bucket: mybucket
        object: /my/desired/key.txt
        src: /usr/local/myfile.txt
        mode: put
        rgw: true
        s3_url: "http://localhost:8000"

    - name: Simple GET operation
      aws_s3:
        bucket: mybucket
        object: /my/desired/key.txt
        dest: /usr/local/myfile.txt
        mode: get

    - name: Get a specific version of an object.
      aws_s3:
        bucket: mybucket
        object: /my/desired/key.txt
        version: 48c9ee5131af7a716edc22df9772aa6f
        dest: /usr/local/myfile.txt
        mode: get

    - name: PUT/upload with metadata
      aws_s3:
        bucket: mybucket
        object: /my/desired/key.txt
        src: /usr/local/myfile.txt
        mode: put
        metadata: 'Content-Encoding=gzip,Cache-Control=no-cache'

    - name: PUT/upload with custom headers
      aws_s3:
        bucket: mybucket
        object: /my/desired/key.txt
        src: /usr/local/myfile.txt
        mode: put
        headers: 'x-amz-grant-full-control=emailAddress=owner@example.com'

    - name: List keys simple
      aws_s3:
        bucket: mybucket
        mode: list

    - name: List keys all options
      aws_s3:
        bucket: mybucket
        mode: list
        prefix: /my/desired/
        marker: /my/desired/0023.txt
        max_keys: 472

    - name: Create an empty bucket
      aws_s3:
        bucket: mybucket
        mode: create
        permission: public-read

    - name: Create a bucket with key as directory, in the EU region
      aws_s3:
        bucket: mybucket
        object: /my/directory/path
        mode: create
        region: eu-west-1

    - name: Delete a bucket and all contents
      aws_s3:
        bucket: mybucket
        mode: delete

    - name: GET an object but don't download if the file checksums match. New in 2.0
      aws_s3:
        bucket: mybucket
        object: /my/desired/key.txt
        dest: /usr/local/myfile.txt
        mode: get
        overwrite: different

    - name: Delete an object from a bucket
      aws_s3:
        bucket: mybucket
        object: /my/desired/key.txt
        mode: delobj

## Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key | Returned | Description
--- | --- | ---
contents string | (for getstr operation) | contents of the object as string Sample: Hello, world!
expiry integer | (for geturl operation) | number of seconds the presigned url is valid for Sample: 600
msg string | always | msg indicating the status of the operation Sample: PUT operation complete
s3_keys list | (for list operation) | list of object keys Sample: ['prefix1/', 'prefix1/key1', 'prefix1/key2']
url string | (for put and geturl operations) | url of the object Sample: https://my-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/my-key.txt?AWSAccessKeyId=<access-key>&Expires=1506888865&Signature=<signature>

## Status

- This module is guaranteed to have backward compatible interface changes going forward. [stableinterface]

- This module is maintained by the Ansible Core Team. [core]

### Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

### Authors

- Lester Wade (@lwade)

- Sloane Hertel (@s-hertel)

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