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Creating a user for kops

The kops user will need to have the following permissions in AWS to function properly:

AmazonEC2FullAccess
AmazonS3FullAccess
AmazonRoute53FullAccess
IAMFullAccess
AmazonVPCFullAccess

First, we are going to create a group named kops and give the needed permissions to the group. Execute the following list of commands to create a group and assign permissions:

$ aws iam create-group --group-name kops$ aws iam attach-group-policy --policy-arn $ arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEC2FullAccess --group-name kops$ aws iam attach-group-policy --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonS3FullAccess --group-name kops$ aws iam attach-group-policy --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonRoute53FullAccess --group-name kops$ aws ...

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