A Control Policy and the Attachments Without Which It Constrains Nobody
A Resource Management control policy and the folders or accounts it attaches to, which are separate resources: an unattached policy appears in the console list with a name and a document and constrains nobody. A control policy is a ceiling, so the module counts Deny statements and asks about Allow ones, which grant nothing. Attaching to the root reaches the management account.
Verification
Static-verifiedPassed: validated and lint-clean (provider-schema-validated for AWS/Azure/GCP; Terraform-language lint elsewhere).
Conformance
- Static validation (fmt · validate · tflint)
- No applicable security policies for this provider
- Plan tests (mocked: validation rules · outputs)
Provenance
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Functional
- Live test pending (no cloud run yet)
Last verified 2026-09-15 · how we verify
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terraform · opentofumodule "org_policy" {
source = "www.iac-bazaar.com/iac-bazaar/alicloud-org-policy/alicloud"
version = "1.0.0"
}Needs a registry token from /account/tokens. The module itself is free; the account is what identifies you. Full setup: registry docs.
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```hcl
module "org_policy" {
source = "www.iac-bazaar.com/iac-bazaar/alicloud-org-policy/alicloud"
version = "1.0.0"
}
```Preview:
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Documentation
alicloud-org-policy
An organization guardrail on Alibaba Cloud Resource Management. Works with Terraform and OpenTofu
(>= 1.6), alicloud provider >= 1.0, < 2.0.
A policy attached to nothing enforces nothing, and it looks exactly like one that is doing work. An empty target list is refused.
A control policy is a ceiling, not a grant. An Allow statement only declines to remove a permission; the RAM policy on the user still has to give it. The module counts Deny statements and asks about Allow ones.
Attaching to the root folder includes the management account - the one you would use to undo it.
Verification
Static validation runs tofu fmt, init, validate, tflint and checkov.
This module has not yet had a live test, so it is published as statically
validated with its live test pending and does not carry the live-tested mark.
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