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community.general.bitwarden_secrets_manager lookup – Retrieve secrets from Bitwarden Secrets Manager

Note

This lookup plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 10.7.3).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. You need further requirements to be able to use this lookup plugin, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.bitwarden_secrets_manager.

New in community.general 7.2.0

Synopsis

  • Retrieve secrets from Bitwarden Secrets Manager.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this lookup.

  • bws (command line utility)

Terms

Parameter

Comments

Terms

list / elements=string / required

Secret ID(s) to fetch values for.

Keyword parameters

This describes keyword parameters of the lookup. These are the values key1=value1, key2=value2 and so on in the following examples: lookup('community.general.bitwarden_secrets_manager', key1=value1, key2=value2, ...) and query('community.general.bitwarden_secrets_manager', key1=value1, key2=value2, ...)

Parameter

Comments

bws_access_token

string / required

The BWS access token to use for this lookup.

Configuration:

Notes

Note

  • When keyword and positional parameters are used together, positional parameters must be listed before keyword parameters: lookup('community.general.bitwarden_secrets_manager', term1, term2, key1=value1, key2=value2) and query('community.general.bitwarden_secrets_manager', term1, term2, key1=value1, key2=value2)

Examples

- name: Get a secret relying on the BWS_ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable for authentication
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: >-
      {{ lookup("community.general.bitwarden_secrets_manager", "2bc23e48-4932-40de-a047-5524b7ddc972") }}

- name: Get a secret passing an explicit access token for authentication
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: >-
      {{
        lookup(
          "community.general.bitwarden_secrets_manager",
          "2bc23e48-4932-40de-a047-5524b7ddc972",
          bws_access_token="9.4f570d14-4b54-42f5-bc07-60f4450b1db5.YmluYXJ5LXNvbWV0aGluZy0xMjMK:d2h5IGhlbGxvIHRoZXJlCg=="
        )
      }}

- name: Get two different secrets each using a different access token for authentication
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg:
      - '{{ lookup("community.general.bitwarden_secrets_manager", "2bc23e48-4932-40de-a047-5524b7ddc972", bws_access_token=token1) }}'
      - '{{ lookup("community.general.bitwarden_secrets_manager", "9d89af4c-eb5d-41f5-bb0f-4ae81215c768", bws_access_token=token2) }}'
  vars:
    token1: "9.4f570d14-4b54-42f5-bc07-60f4450b1db5.YmluYXJ5LXNvbWV0aGluZy0xMjMK:d2h5IGhlbGxvIHRoZXJlCg=="
    token2: "1.69b72797-6ea9-4687-a11e-848e41a30ae6.YW5zaWJsZSBpcyBncmVhdD8K:YW5zaWJsZSBpcyBncmVhdAo="

- name: Get just the value of a secret
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: >-
      {{ lookup("community.general.bitwarden_secrets_manager", "2bc23e48-4932-40de-a047-5524b7ddc972").value }}

Return Value

Key

Description

Return value

list / elements=dictionary

List containing one or more secrets.

Returned: success

Authors

  • jantari (@jantari)

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/bitwarden_secrets_manager_lookup.html