# ROSAKubeControllerPolicy
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**Description**: Allows the ROSA Kubernetes controller to manage Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and AWS Key Management Service (KMS) resources for a ROSA cluster.

`ROSAKubeControllerPolicy` is an [AWS managed policy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-vs-inline.html#aws-managed-policies).

## Using this policy
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You can attach `ROSAKubeControllerPolicy` to your users, groups, and roles.

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: Service role policy 
+ **Creation time**: April 27, 2023, 20:09 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** April 10, 2026, 16:12 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/ROSAKubeControllerPolicy`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v7 (default)

The policy's default version is the version that defines the permissions for the policy. When a user or role with the policy makes a request to access an AWS resource, AWS checks the default version of the policy to determine whether to allow the request. 

## JSON policy document
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```
{
  "Version" : "2012-10-17",
  "Statement" : [
    {
      "Sid" : "ReadPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeRouteTables",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancerAttributes",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListeners",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroupAttributes",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancerPolicies"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "KMSDescribeKey",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "kms:DescribeKey"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:ResourceTag/red-hat" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "LoadBalanacerManagement",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "elasticloadbalancing:AddTags",
        "elasticloadbalancing:ConfigureHealthCheck",
        "elasticloadbalancing:CreateLoadBalancerPolicy",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeleteLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeregisterInstancesFromLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:ModifyLoadBalancerAttributes",
        "elasticloadbalancing:RegisterInstancesWithLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:SetLoadBalancerPoliciesForBackendServer"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CreateTargetGroup",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "elasticloadbalancing:CreateTargetGroup"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/red-hat-managed" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "LoadBalanacerManagementResourceTag",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeleteListener",
        "elasticloadbalancing:RegisterTargets",
        "elasticloadbalancing:ModifyTargetGroup",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeleteTargetGroup",
        "elasticloadbalancing:ApplySecurityGroupsToLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:CreateLoadBalancerListeners",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeleteLoadBalancerListeners",
        "elasticloadbalancing:AttachLoadBalancerToSubnets",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DetachLoadBalancerFromSubnets",
        "elasticloadbalancing:ModifyListener",
        "elasticloadbalancing:SetLoadBalancerPoliciesOfListener"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:ResourceTag/red-hat-managed" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CreateListeners",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "elasticloadbalancing:CreateListener"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/red-hat-managed" : "true",
          "aws:ResourceTag/red-hat-managed" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CreateSecurityGroup",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/red-hat-managed" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CreateSecurityGroupVpc",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CreateLoadBalancer",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "elasticloadbalancing:CreateLoadBalancer"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:loadbalancer/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/red-hat-managed" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "ModifySecurityGroup",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
        "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupIngress",
        "ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:ResourceTag/red-hat-managed" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CreateTagsSecurityGroups",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateTags"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "ec2:CreateAction" : "CreateSecurityGroup"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "ManageTargetGroup",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "elasticloadbalancing:ModifyTargetGroupAttributes",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeregisterTargets"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:targetgroup/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:ResourceTag/red-hat-managed" : "true"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

## Learn more
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+ [Create a permission set using AWS managed policies in IAM Identity Center](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/howtocreatepermissionset.html) 
+ [Adding and removing IAM identity permissions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_manage-attach-detach.html) 
+ [Understand versioning for IAM policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-versioning.html)
+ [Get started with AWS managed policies and move toward least-privilege permissions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html#bp-use-aws-defined-policies)