AWS scaffolder actions plugin for Backstage

This is the AWS scaffolder actions plugin for backstage.io.

It provides scaffolder actions to:

1. Create AWS resources using the AWS Cloud Control API
2. Post an event to AWS EventBridge via the PutEvents API
3. Publish files to an Amazon S3 bucket
4. Create and publish files to a new AWS CodeCommit repository

Installing

This guide assumes that you are familiar with the general Getting Started documentation and have assumes you have an existing Backstage application.

Install the backend package in your Backstage app:

yarn workspace backend add @aws/aws-core-plugin-for-backstage-scaffolder-actions

Add the scaffolder module to the packages/backend/src/index.ts:

const backend = createBackend();
// ...
backend.add(import('@aws/aws-core-plugin-for-backstage-scaffolder-actions'));
// ...
backend.start();

Actions

Each action is documented below.

AWS Cloud Control - Create resource

This scaffolder action creates AWS resources using the AWS Cloud Control API.

Note: Creating AWS resources using this mechanism is generally discouraged unless for exceptional use-cases. We strongly recommend relying on infrastructure-as-code to create AWS resources, and using this action for anything that is strictly related to bootstrapping a project.

Permissions

The IAM role(s) used by Backstage will require the following permissions:

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": ["cloudcontrol:CreateResource"],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Note: This policy does not reflect least privilege and you should further limit the policy to the appropriate AWS resources.

Usage

The scaffolder action can be included in a software template like so:

steps:
  - id: create-ecr-repository
    name: Create ECR Repository
    action: aws:cloudcontrol:create
    input:
      typeName: 'AWS::ECR::Repository'
      desiredState: '{"RepositoryName": "${{ parameters.name }}-ecr-repository"}'
      wait: true
      maxWaitTime: 20