A Policy That Cannot Quietly Grant and Forbid Nothing
An OVHcloud IAM policy over named identities and resources. A policy with neither allow nor deny appears in the list with a description somebody wrote and does nothing at all, which is refused here. except is a hole in allow rather than a deny, and expired_at is reported as an output because a policy that expires fails like a broken credential.
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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- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live test pending (no cloud run yet)
Last verified 2026-09-15 · how we verify
Use it from the registry
terraform · opentofumodule "iam_policy" {
source = "www.iac-bazaar.com/iac-bazaar/ovh-iam-policy/ovh"
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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Documentation
ovh-iam-policy
An IAM policy on OVHcloud. Works with Terraform and OpenTofu
(>= 1.6), ovh provider >= 2.0, < 3.0.
A policy with neither allow nor deny nor a permissions group does nothing. It names identities, names resources, appears in the policy list and grants and forbids nothing. Refused unless accepted by name.
except is a hole in allow, not a deny. It subtracts from what this policy grants; it cannot take away a permission granted elsewhere. An except with an empty allow subtracts from nothing, and that is refused too.
expires_at is a time bomb with no alarm. After that moment everything the policy allowed starts failing as though a credential had broken. is_temporary and expires_at are outputs so the fact is on the page.
Identities and resources are URNs and a wrong one is not an error. A URN naming nothing is accepted and matches nothing; the counts are outputs because nothing else will tell you.
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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