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Support for temporary credential with OIDC

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
32/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
aws, github-actions
Domain
ci-cd, cloud

Research direction

Start by reading the example workflow in the issue and compare the existing AWS access-key inputs with the aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4 step. Determine how this action receives credentials and what OIDC-based usage should look like; done means a temporary role can deploy the Lambda without static access-key inputs, with documentation or workflow validation covering the example.

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Description

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This action supports the use of OIDC for authentication

Instead of the AWS Access KEY, which inherits human flaws and cannot be whitelisted

uses: appleboy/lambda-action@v0.2.0
      with:
        aws_access_key_id: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
        aws_secret_access_key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
        aws_region: ${{ secrets.AWS_REGION }}
        function_name: gorush
        zip_file: output.zip
        dry_run: true

With OIDC/AUTH2, granular permissions can be given with temporary access.

The example below shows the action used with OIDC support.

  - name: Configure AWS credentials
    uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
    with:
      role-to-assume: arn:aws:iam::${{ secrets.awsAccountId }}:role/github-actions-oidc-role 
      aws-region: ${{ secrets.AWS_REGION }}

  - name: Deploy function
    uses: appleboy/lambda-action@v0.2.0
    with:
      function_name: function_name
      zip_file: funciton.zip
      aws_region: region_name
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