community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault – Retrieve secrets from HashiCorp’s Vault

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• See Also
• Examples
• Return Values

Synopsis

• Retrieve secrets from HashiCorp’s Vault.

Requirements

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

• hvac (Python library)
• For detailed requirements, see the collection requirements page.

Parameters

Notes

See Also

Examples

- ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret=secret/hello:value token=c975b780-d1be-8016-866b-01d0f9b688a5 url=http://myvault:8200') }}"

- name: Return all secrets from a path
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret=secret/hello token=c975b780-d1be-8016-866b-01d0f9b688a5 url=http://myvault:8200') }}"

- name: Vault that requires authentication via LDAP
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret/hello:value auth_method=ldap mount_point=ldap username=myuser password=mypas') }}"

- name: Vault that requires authentication via username and password
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret=secret/hola:val auth_method=userpass username=myuser password=psw url=http://vault:8200') }}"

- name: Connect to Vault using TLS
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret=secret/hola:value token=c975b780-d1be-8016-866b-01d0f9b688a5 validate_certs=False') }}"

- name: using certificate auth
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret/hi:val token=xxxx url=https://vault:8200 validate_certs=True cacert=/cacert/path/ca.pem') }}"

- name: Authenticate with a Vault app role
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret=secret/hello:value auth_method=approle role_id=myroleid secret_id=mysecretid') }}"

- name: Return all secrets from a path in a namespace
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret=secret/hello token=c975b780-d1be-8016-866b-01d0f9b688a5 namespace=teama/admins') }}"

# When using KV v2 the PATH should include "data" between the secret engine mount and path (e.g. "secret/data/:path")
# see: https://www.vaultproject.io/api/secret/kv/kv-v2.html#read-secret-version
- name: Return latest KV v2 secret from path
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret=secret/data/hello token=my_vault_token url=http://myvault_url:8200') }}"

# The following examples show more modern syntax, with parameters specified separately from the term string.

- name: secret= is not required if secret is first
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret/data/hello token=<token> url=http://myvault_url:8200') }}"

- name: options can be specified as parameters rather than put in term string
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret/data/hello', token=my_token_var, url='http://myvault_url:8200') }}"

# return_format (or its alias 'as') can control how secrets are returned to you
- name: return secrets as a dict (default)
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    my_secrets: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret/data/manysecrets', token=my_token_var, url='http://myvault_url:8200') }}"
- ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ my_secrets['secret_key'] }}"
- ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "Secret '{{ item.key }}' has value '{{ item.value }}'"
  loop: "{{ my_secrets | dict2items }}"

- name: return secrets as values only
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "A secret value: {{ item }}"
  loop: "{{ query('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret/data/manysecrets', token=my_token_var, url='http://vault_url:8200', return_format='values') }}"

- name: return raw secret from API, including metadata
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    my_secret: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret/data/hello:value', token=my_token_var, url='http://myvault_url:8200', as='raw') }}"
- ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "This is version {{ my_secret['metadata']['version'] }} of hello:value. The secret data is {{ my_secret['data']['data']['value'] }}"

# AWS IAM authentication method
# uses Ansible standard AWS options

- name: authenticate with aws_iam_login
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret/hello:value', auth_method='aws_iam_login', role_id='myroleid', profile=my_boto_profile) }}"

# JWT auth

- name: Authenticate with a JWT
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret/hola:val', auth_method='jwt', role_id='myroleid', jwt='myjwt', url='https://vault:8200') }}"

# Disabling Token Validation
# Use this when your token does not have the lookup-self capability. Usually this is applied to all tokens via the default policy.
# However you can choose to create tokens without applying the default policy, or you can modify your default policy not to include it.
# When disabled, your invalid or expired token will be indistinguishable from insufficent permissions.

- name: authenticate without token validation
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret/hello:value', token=my_token, token_validate=False) }}"

# "none" auth method does no authentication and does not send a token to the Vault address.
# One example of where this could be used is with a Vault agent where the agent will handle authentication to Vault.
# https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/agent

- name: authenticate with vault agent
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret/hello:value', auth_method='none', url='http://127.0.0.1:8100') }}"

# Use a proxy

- name: use a proxy with login/password
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret=... token=... url=https://... proxies=https://user:pass@myproxy:8080') }}"

- name: 'use a socks proxy (need some additional dependencies, see: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/user/advanced/#socks )'
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret=... token=... url=https://... proxies=socks5://myproxy:1080') }}"

- name: use proxies with a dict (as param)
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', '...', proxies={'http': 'http://myproxy1', 'https': 'http://myproxy2'}) }}"

- name: use proxies with a dict (as param, pre-defined var)
  vars:
    prox:
      http: http://myproxy1
      https: https://myproxy2
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', '...', proxies=prox }}"

- name: use proxies with a dict (as direct ansible var)
  vars:
    ansible_hashi_vault_proxies:
      http: http://myproxy1
      https: https://myproxy2
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', '...' }}"

- name: use proxies with a dict (in the term string, JSON syntax)
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', '... proxies={\"http\":\"http://myproxy1\",\"https\":\"http://myproxy2\"}') }}"

- name: use ansible vars to supply some options
  vars:
    ansible_hashi_vault_url: 'https://myvault:8282'
    ansible_hashi_vault_auth_method: token
  set_fact:
    secret1: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret/data/secret1') }}"
    secret2: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret/data/secret2') }}"

- name: use a custom timeout
  debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret/data/secret1', timeout=120) }}"

- name: use a custom timeout and retry on failure 3 times (with collection retry defaults)
  vars:
    ansible_hashi_vault_timeout: 5
    ansible_hashi_vault_retries: 3
  debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret/data/secret1') }}"

- name: retry on failure (with custom retry settings and no warnings)
  vars:
    ansible_hashi_vault_retries:
      total: 6
      backoff_factor: 0.9
      status_forcelist: [500, 502]
      allowed_methods:
        - GET
        - PUT
  debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret/data/secret1', retry_action='warn') }}"

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this lookup:

Authors

• Julie Davila (@juliedavila) <julie(at)davila.io>
• Brian Scholer (@briantist)