What permissions do I add in AWS to enable ecr:getAuthorizationToken?

Question

I'm trying to follow the steps to use amazon elastic container registry (ECR) but I'm stuck at the first step, which is obtaining an auth token.

Command:

aws ecr get-login

Or...

aws ecr get-login --region=us-west-2

Error:

An error occurred (AccessDeniedException) when calling the GetAuthorizationToken operation: User: arn:aws:iam::9#####4:user/### is not authorized to perform: ecr:GetAuthorizationToken on resource: *

AWS Permissions on user for region us-west-2:

AmazonEC2FullAccess
AmazonEC2ContainerRegistryFullAccess
Billing
AdministratorAccess
AmazonECS_FullAccess

AWS CLI version:

aws help --version
aws-cli/1.14.40 Python/3.6.4 Darwin/18.2.0 botocore/1.8.44

Have you looked in the actual error documentations? docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECR/latest/userguide/… — Dvir669

Dvir669 Dvir669 · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-01T22:16:05

Please note that you're not allowing your user any access to ECR in a sense. Try adding the following policy to the user:

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [{
    "Effect": "Allow",
    "Action": [
        "ecr:GetAuthorizationToken",
        "ecr:BatchCheckLayerAvailability",
        "ecr:GetDownloadUrlForLayer",
        "ecr:GetRepositoryPolicy",
        "ecr:DescribeRepositories",
        "ecr:ListImages",
        "ecr:DescribeImages",
        "ecr:BatchGetImage"
    ],
    "Resource": "*"
}]
}

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECR/latest/userguide/ecr_managed_policies.html#AmazonEC2ContainerRegistryReadOnly

What permissions do I add in AWS to enable ecr:getAuthorizationToken?

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