Creating IAM user with access key

I’m trying to create a user with an access key along the following lines:

import iam = require('@aws-cdk/aws-iam')

const myUserName = 'my-user-name'
const user = new iam.User(this, 'myUser', {
  userName: userName
})
const accessKey = new iam.CfnAccessKey(this, 'myAccessKey', {
  userName: myUserName
})

new cdk.Output(this, 'accessKeyId', { value: accessKey.accessKeyId });
new cdk.Output(this, 'secretAccessKey', { value: accessKey.accessKeySecretAccessKey });

This works OK when I run it in two stages so that the user gets created in the first deployment and the access key gets created in the second deployment. However, if it’s run in a single stage it looks like the creation of the access key does not wait for the user to be created and thus an error occurs.

Is there a way to express the dependency of the access key resource on the user resource?

[freakingawesome]

The syntax mentioned above (cdk.Output) is out of date. To achieve the same thing now you would use:

new cdk.CfnOutput(this, 'accessKeyId', { value: accessKey.ref });
new cdk.CfnOutput(this, 'secretAccessKey', { value: accessKey.attrSecretAccessKey });

[skinny85]

Hey @floehopper,

can you try:

const accessKey = new CfnAccessKey(this, 'myAccessKey', {
  userName: user.userName,
});

?

Thanks, Adam