Cognito Admin
This project provides an enhanced admin panel as an alternative to what's found in the AWS Web Console. The intent is to provide a more user-friendly interface with additional features available (currently) only in the CLI, not the Web interface.
Installation and Usage
This project is intended to run locally. It currently only supports Access/Secret key authentication, and I didn't want the headache of trying to host something myself that securely managed access to such sensitive data. To install it, just:
- Clone this repository locally.
- Run
yarnto install the dependencies. You will need Node 10.x or higher and Yarn installed to do this. - Copy
config.json.exampletoconfig.jsonand edit the settings there. The settings should be self explanatory. - Run
yarn serveand access the URL it provides.
Note that the access/secret key must be supplied here because this is primarily a front-end Web project that calls the Cognito APIs
directly - it doesn't have an internal API of its own. It's therefore not able to access your local AWS CLI credentials file and I view
that as a good thing. The credentials you provide don't need to be a global admin user for your Amazon account. It just needs admin access
to the specific Cognito User Pool you want to administer. That means you can set up a special user and IAM role just for this purpose, with
only those permissions required to administer the pool you want. I strongly recommend that you do this.
Docker
This project includes a Docker file, meaning you can run this project without Node / Yarn installed. You should still create
config.json as described above first, then run:
docker build -t cognito-admin .
docker run -p 8080:8080 -d cognito-admin
One caveat is that this method will require a rebuild for any future updates.
NOTE: I do not recommend using this method as a means of deployment! This project has no provisions for controlling access to it. It was intended to be run locally in a trusted environment (your workstation), not hosted on a server.