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Terraform module to provision an AWS CloudTrail.

The module accepts an encrypted S3 bucket with versioning to store CloudTrail logs.

The bucket could be from the same AWS account or from a different account.

This is useful if an organization uses a number of separate AWS accounts to isolate the Audit environment from other environments (production, staging, development).

In this case, you create CloudTrail in the production environment (production AWS account), while the S3 bucket to store the CloudTrail logs is created in the Audit AWS account, restricting access to the logs only to the users/groups from the Audit account.


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Usage

IMPORTANT: We do not pin modules to versions in our examples because of the difficulty of keeping the versions in the documentation in sync with the latest released versions. We highly recommend that in your code you pin the version to the exact version you are using so that your infrastructure remains stable, and update versions in a systematic way so that they do not catch you by surprise.

Also, because of a bug in the Terraform registry (hashicorp/terraform#21417), the registry shows many of our inputs as required when in fact they are optional. The table below correctly indicates which inputs are required.

module "cloudtrail" {
  source = "appzen-oos/cloudtrail/aws"
  # Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version
  # version     = "x.x.x"
  name                          = "dev-account-cloudtrail"
  enable_log_file_validation    = true
  include_global_service_events = true
  insight_selector              = [ {insight_type = "ApiCallRateInsight"} ]
  is_multi_region_trail         = false
  enable_logging                = true
  s3_bucket_name                = "s3-log-storage"
  s3_key_prefix                 = "cloudtrail"
}

NOTE: To create an S3 bucket for CloudTrail logs, use terraform-aws-cloudtrail-s3-bucket module. It creates an S3 bucket and an IAM policy to allow CloudTrail logs.

module "cloudtrail" {
  source = "appzen-oss/cloudtrail/aws"
  # Recommends pinning every module to a specific version
  # version     = "x.x.x"
  namespace                     = "eg"
  stage                         = "dev"
  name                          = "cluster"
  enable_log_file_validation    = true
  include_global_service_events = true
  is_multi_region_trail         = false
  enable_logging                = true
  s3_bucket_name                = module.cloudtrail_s3_bucket.bucket_id
}

module "cloudtrail_s3_bucket" {
  source = "cloudposse/cloudtrail-s3-bucket/aws"
  # Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version
  # version     = "x.x.x"
  namespace = "eg"
  stage     = "dev"
  name      = "cluster"
}

For a complete example, see examples/complete.

Makefile Targets

Available targets:

  help                                Help screen
  help/all                            Display help for all targets
  help/short                          This help short screen
  lint                                Lint terraform code

Requirements

Name Version
terraform >= 0.13.0
aws >= 2.0

Providers

Name Version
aws >= 2.0

Modules

Name Source Version
this cloudposse/label/null 0.25.0

Resources

Name Type
aws_cloudtrail.default resource

Inputs

Name Description Type Default Required
additional_tag_map Additional key-value pairs to add to each map in tags_as_list_of_maps. Not added to tags or id.
This is for some rare cases where resources want additional configuration of tags
and therefore take a list of maps with tag key, value, and additional configuration.
map(string) {} no
attributes ID element. Additional attributes (e.g. workers or cluster) to add to id,
in the order they appear in the list. New attributes are appended to the
end of the list. The elements of the list are joined by the delimiter
and treated as a single ID element.
list(string) [] no
cloud_watch_logs_group_arn Specifies a log group name using an Amazon Resource Name (ARN), that represents the log group to which CloudTrail logs will be delivered string "" no
cloud_watch_logs_role_arn Specifies the role for the CloudWatch Logs endpoint to assume to write to a user’s log group string "" no
context Single object for setting entire context at once.
See description of individual variables for details.
Leave string and numeric variables as null to use default value.
Individual variable settings (non-null) override settings in context object,
except for attributes, tags, and additional_tag_map, which are merged.
any
{
"additional_tag_map": {},
"attributes": [],
"delimiter": null,
"descriptor_formats": {},
"enabled": true,
"environment": null,
"id_length_limit": null,
"label_key_case": null,
"label_order": [],
"label_value_case": null,
"labels_as_tags": [
"unset"
],
"name": null,
"namespace": null,
"regex_replace_chars": null,
"stage": null,
"tags": {},
"tenant": null
}
no
delimiter Delimiter to be used between ID elements.
Defaults to - (hyphen). Set to "" to use no delimiter at all.
string null no
descriptor_formats Describe additional descriptors to be output in the descriptors output map.
Map of maps. Keys are names of descriptors. Values are maps of the form
{<br> format = string<br> labels = list(string)<br>}
(Type is any so the map values can later be enhanced to provide additional options.)
format is a Terraform format string to be passed to the format() function.
labels is a list of labels, in order, to pass to format() function.
Label values will be normalized before being passed to format() so they will be
identical to how they appear in id.
Default is {} (descriptors output will be empty).
any {} no
enable_log_file_validation Specifies whether log file integrity validation is enabled. Creates signed digest for validated contents of logs bool true no
enable_logging Enable logging for the trail bool true no
enabled Set to false to prevent the module from creating any resources bool null no
environment ID element. Usually used for region e.g. 'uw2', 'us-west-2', OR role 'prod', 'staging', 'dev', 'UAT' string null no
event_selector Specifies an event selector for enabling data event logging. See: https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/r/cloudtrail.html for details on this variable
list(object({
include_management_events = bool
read_write_type = string

data_resource = list(object({
type = string
values = list(string)
}))
}))
[] no
insight_selector Specifies an insight selector for identifying unusual operational activity. See: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/cloudtrail#insight_type details for this variable
list(object({
insight_type = string
}))
[] no
id_length_limit Limit id to this many characters (minimum 6).
Set to 0 for unlimited length.
Set to null for keep the existing setting, which defaults to 0.
Does not affect id_full.
number null no
include_global_service_events Specifies whether the trail is publishing events from global services such as IAM to the log files bool false no
is_multi_region_trail Specifies whether the trail is created in the current region or in all regions bool true no
is_organization_trail The trail is an AWS Organizations trail bool false no
kms_key_arn Specifies the KMS key ARN to use to encrypt the logs delivered by CloudTrail string "" no
label_key_case Controls the letter case of the tags keys (label names) for tags generated by this module.
Does not affect keys of tags passed in via the tags input.
Possible values: lower, title, upper.
Default value: title.
string null no
label_order The order in which the labels (ID elements) appear in the id.
Defaults to ["namespace", "environment", "stage", "name", "attributes"].
You can omit any of the 6 labels ("tenant" is the 6th), but at least one must be present.
list(string) null no
label_value_case Controls the letter case of ID elements (labels) as included in id,
set as tag values, and output by this module individually.
Does not affect values of tags passed in via the tags input.
Possible values: lower, title, upper and none (no transformation).
Set this to title and set delimiter to "" to yield Pascal Case IDs.
Default value: lower.
string null no
labels_as_tags Set of labels (ID elements) to include as tags in the tags output.
Default is to include all labels.
Tags with empty values will not be included in the tags output.
Set to [] to suppress all generated tags.
Notes:
The value of the name tag, if included, will be the id, not the name.
Unlike other null-label inputs, the initial setting of labels_as_tags cannot be
changed in later chained modules. Attempts to change it will be silently ignored.
set(string)
[
"default"
]
no
name ID element. Usually the component or solution name, e.g. 'app' or 'jenkins'.
This is the only ID element not also included as a tag.
The "name" tag is set to the full id string. There is no tag with the value of the name input.
string null no
namespace ID element. Usually an abbreviation of your organization name, e.g. 'eg' or 'cp', to help ensure generated IDs are globally unique string null no
regex_replace_chars Terraform regular expression (regex) string.
Characters matching the regex will be removed from the ID elements.
If not set, "/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/" is used to remove all characters other than hyphens, letters and digits.
string null no
s3_bucket_name S3 bucket name for CloudTrail logs string n/a yes
s3_key_prefix Prefix for S3 bucket used by Cloudtrail to store logs string null no
sns_topic_name Specifies the name of the Amazon SNS topic defined for notification of log file delivery string null no
stage ID element. Usually used to indicate role, e.g. 'prod', 'staging', 'source', 'build', 'test', 'deploy', 'release' string null no
tags Additional tags (e.g. {'BusinessUnit': 'XYZ'}).
Neither the tag keys nor the tag values will be modified by this module.
map(string) {} no
tenant ID element _(Rarely used, not included by default)_. A customer identifier, indicating who this instance of a resource is for string null no

Outputs

Name Description
cloudtrail_arn The Amazon Resource Name of the trail
cloudtrail_home_region The region in which the trail was created
cloudtrail_id The name of the trail

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