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Amazon Cognito User Pools source

This event source captures messages from an Amazon Cognito User Pool whenever a specific action, such as the creation of a new user, happens in the user identity pool.

With tmctl:

tmctl create source awscognitouserpool --arn <arn> --auth.credentials.accessKeyID <keyID> --auth.credentials.secretAccessKey <key>

On Kubernetes:

apiVersion: sources.triggermesh.io/v1alpha1
kind: AWSCognitoUserPoolSource
metadata:
  name: sample
spec:
  arn: arn:aws:cognito-idp:us-west-2:123456789012:userpool/us-west-2_abcdefghi

  auth:
    credentials:
      accessKeyID:
        valueFromSecret:
          name: awscreds
          key: aws_access_key_id
      secretAccessKey:
        valueFromSecret:
          name: awscreds
          key: aws_secret_access_key

  sink:
    ref:
      apiVersion: eventing.triggermesh.io/v1alpha1
      kind: RedisBroker
      name: triggermesh

Alternatively you can use an IAM role for authentication instead of an access key and secret, for Amazon EKS only:

auth:
  iamrole: arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/foo

For details on authenticating with AWS, please take a look at our dedicated guide on AWS credentials.

Events produced have the following attributes:

See the Kubernetes object reference for more details.

Prerequisite(s)

  • Amazon Cognito User Pool
  • Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
  • API Credentials

Amazon Cognito User Pool

If you don't already have an Amazon Cognito User Pool, create one by following the instructions in the Getting started with User Pools guide.

Amazon Resource Name (ARN)

A fully qualified ARN is required to uniquely identify the Amazon Cognito User Pool.

User Pool ARN

As shown in the above screenshot, you can obtain the ARN of a User Pool from the AWS console. It typically has the following format:

arn:aws:cognito-idp:{awsRegion}:{awsAccountId}:userpool/{poolId}

Alternatively you can also use the [AWS CLI][aws-cli]. The following command retrieves the ARN of a User Pool in the us-west-2 region which has the pool id us-west-2_fak3p001B.

$ aws --region us-west-2 cognito-idp describe-user-pool --user-pool-id us-west-2_fak3p001B
{
    "UserPool": {
        "Id": "us-west-2_fak3p001B",
        ...
        "Arn": "arn:aws:cognito-idp:us-west-2:043455440429:userpool/us-west-2_fak3p001B",
        ...
    }
}

API credentials

The TriggerMesh event source for Amazon Cognito User Pools authenticates calls to the AWS API using AWS Access Keys. The page Understanding and getting your AWS credentials contains instructions to create access keys when signed-in either as the root user or as an IAM user. Take note of the Access Key ID and Secret Access Key, they will be used to create an instance of the event source.

It is considered a good practice to create dedicated users with restricted privileges in order to programmatically access AWS services. Permissions can be added or revoked granularly for a given IAM user by attaching IAM Policies to it.

As an example, the following policy contains the permissions required by the TriggerMesh Amazon Cognito User Pool event source to list users in any user pool associated with the AWS account:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "AWSCognitoUserPoolSourceReceiveAdapter",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cognito-idp:DescribeUserPool",
                "cognito-idp:ListUsers"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:cognito-idp:*:*:userpool/*"
        }
    ]
}