Create an S3 role using a Cloud Formation template
In the next steps, you will create an S3 role that will give Jenkins permission to upload the Promotion Manager application build to the artifact repository you created in module 1. The role value will be used as an input to the Jenkins Sandbox deployment. Once Jenkins is deployed, it will use this role as a parameter of the pipeline jobs that you will run (see Deploy a Sandbox from Jenkins.
1. Open AWS in a browser and navigate to the CloudFormation service
2. Click Create stack
3. In the drop-down list that appears, select With new resources (standard)
4. Under Template source, select Upload a template file
5. Click Choose file
6. Upload s3_bucket_access.template from the /jenkins directory of the workshop’s repo you created in Module 1. You may select the file from your local clone of the workshop’s Git repo, or use the URL of that file in the original repo: https://github.com/QualiSystemsLab/aws-workshop-torque/blob/master/jenkins/s3_bucket_access.template
7. Click Next
8. Enter a name for the stack (e.g. “S3role”) and specify the S3 bucket name as the S3 bucket name in Parameter
9. Click Next
10. In the Configure stack options page, click Next again
11. In the Review page, scroll to the bottom and check the acknowledgement checkbox
12. Click _Create stack__
13. Wait for the new role to be created - you might want to click the refresh button on the top-right of the Events table
14. Once the role is created, open the Outputs tab
15. Save the value of the IAMRoleInstanceProfile key. It will serve as an input for your Jenkins sandbox
