oci_identity_user

This resource provides the User resource in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity service.

Creates a new user in your tenancy. For conceptual information about users, your tenancy, and other IAM Service components, see Overview of the IAM Service.

You must specify your tenancy’s OCID as the compartment ID in the request object (remember that the tenancy is simply the root compartment). Notice that IAM resources (users, groups, compartments, and some policies) reside within the tenancy itself, unlike cloud resources such as compute instances, which typically reside within compartments inside the tenancy. For information about OCIDs, see Resource Identifiers.

You must also specify a name for the user, which must be unique across all users in your tenancy and cannot be changed. Allowed characters: No spaces. Only letters, numerals, hyphens, periods, underscores, +, and @. If you specify a name that’s already in use, you’ll get a 409 error. This name will be the user’s login to the Console. You might want to pick a name that your company’s own identity system (e.g., Active Directory, LDAP, etc.) already uses. If you delete a user and then create a new user with the same name, they’ll be considered different users because they have different OCIDs.

You must also specify a description for the user (although it can be an empty string). It does not have to be unique, and you can change it anytime with UpdateUser. You can use the field to provide the user’s full name, a description, a nickname, or other information to generally identify the user. A new user has no permissions until you place the user in one or more groups (see AddUserToGroup). If the user needs to access the Console, you need to provide the user a password (see CreateOrResetUIPassword). If the user needs to access the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure REST API, you need to upload a public API signing key for that user (see Required Keys and OCIDs and also UploadApiKey).

Important: Make sure to inform the new user which compartment(s) they have access to.

Example Usage

resource "oci_identity_user" "test_user" {
	#Required
	compartment_id = var.tenancy_ocid
	description = var.user_description
	name = var.user_name

	#Optional
	defined_tags = {"Operations.CostCenter"= "42"}
	email = var.user_email
	freeform_tags = {"Department"= "Finance"}
}

Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

** IMPORTANT ** Any change to a property that does not support update will force the destruction and recreation of the resource with the new property values

Attributes Reference

The following attributes are exported:

Timeouts

The timeouts block allows you to specify timeouts for certain operations: * create - (Defaults to 20 minutes), when creating the User * update - (Defaults to 20 minutes), when updating the User * delete - (Defaults to 20 minutes), when destroying the User

Import

Users can be imported using the id, e.g.

$ terraform import oci_identity_user.test_user "id"