[autoscaling] Unable to use the same iam role for multiple AutoscalingGroups

I had an EKS Cluster with an iam assigned to an autoscaling group used for the worker nodes. When creating a second ASG and assigning the same iam Role I get the error in cloudformation: “Property ManagedPolicyArns contains duplicate values.”

Reproduction Steps

this.eksCluster = new eks.Cluster(this, 'Cluster', {
            clusterName: clusterName,
            defaultCapacity: 0,
            role: clusterRole,
            securityGroup: eksSg,
            version: context['ClusterVersion'],
            vpc: vpc,
            vpcSubnets: [
                vpcSubnets
            ]
        });
const workerRole = new iam.Role(this, "WorkerRole", {
            assumedBy: new iam.ServicePrincipal("ec2.amazonaws.com"),
            roleName: `${applicationName}${environment}${uniqueIdentifier}EKSWorkerRole`,
            inlinePolicies: {
                "WorkerPolicies": new iam.PolicyDocument({
                    statements: [
                        new iam.PolicyStatement({
                            effect: Effect.ALLOW,
                            actions: [
                                "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups"
                            ],
                            resources: ["*"]
                        })
                    ]
                })
            }
        })
const onDemandASG = new autoscaling.AutoScalingGroup(this, 'OnDemandASG', {
            vpc: vpc,
            role: workerRole,
            minCapacity: 2,
            maxCapacity: 10,
            instanceType: new ec2.InstanceType("t3.large"),
            machineImage: new eks.EksOptimizedImage({
                kubernetesVersion: clusterVersion,
                nodeType: eks.NodeType.STANDARD  // wihtout this, incorrect SSM parameter for AMI is resolved
            }),
            updateType: autoscaling.UpdateType.ROLLING_UPDATE,
            vpcSubnets: vpcSubnets
        });
this.eksCluster.addAutoScalingGroup(onDemandASG, {
            bootstrapEnabled: true,
            mapRole: true
        })
 const elasticsearchASG = new autoscaling.AutoScalingGroup(this, 'ElasticsearchASG', {
            vpc: vpc,
            role: workerRole,
            minCapacity: 3,
            maxCapacity: 4,
            desiredCapacity: 3,
            instanceType: new ec2.InstanceType("t3.large"),
            machineImage: new eks.EksOptimizedImage({
                kubernetesVersion: clusterVersion,
                nodeType: eks.NodeType.STANDARD  // wihtout this, incorrect SSM parameter for AMI is resolved
            }),
            updateType: autoscaling.UpdateType.ROLLING_UPDATE,
            vpcSubnets: {
                subnets: [ publicSubnet1a ]
            }
        });

elasticsearchASG.connections.allowFrom(ec2.Peer.ipv4(context['OfficeIP']), ec2.Port.allTcp())
        this.eksCluster.addAutoScalingGroup(elasticsearchASG, {
            bootstrapEnabled: true,
            mapRole: true
        })

Error Log

In cloudformation I get the following error:

WorkerRole8DD27D41 | UPDATE_FAILED | Property ManagedPolicyArns contains duplicate values.

Environment

• **CLI Version : 1.23.0 (build 01f326e)
• **Language : Typescript

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[moatazelmasry2]

Nop. I’d say this is still a bug. In cloudformation I’m able to reuse an iam role for multiple ASGs, so I’d expect the same from CDK

On Wed 19. Feb 2020 at 20:07, Somaya [e-mail] wrote:

@moatazelmasry2 https://github.com/moatazelmasry2 I’m glad you found a solution! Can I go ahead and close this issue?

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[moatazelmasry2]

Solved the problem by creating a second role and assigning it to the second ASG