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community.general.hashi_vault – Retrieve secrets from HashiCorp’s vault

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection.

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

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

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)
  • hvac 0.7.0+ (for namespace support)
  • hvac 0.9.6+ (to avoid all deprecation warnings)
  • botocore (only if inferring aws params from boto)
  • boto3 (only if using a boto profile)

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
auth_method
string
    Choices:
  • token
  • userpass
  • ldap
  • approle
  • aws_iam_login
ini entries:

[lookup_hashi_vault]
auth_method = token

added in 0.2.0 of community.general
env:VAULT_AUTH_METHOD
Authentication method to be used.
userpass is added in Ansible 2.8.
aws_iam_login is added in community.general 0.2.0.
aws_access_key
string
added in 0.2.0 of community.general
env:EC2_ACCESS_KEY
env:AWS_ACCESS_KEY
env:AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
The AWS access key to use.

aliases: aws_access_key_id
aws_profile
string
added in 0.2.0 of community.general
env:AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE
env:AWS_PROFILE
The AWS profile

aliases: boto_profile
aws_secret_key
string
added in 0.2.0 of community.general
env:EC2_SECRET_KEY
env:AWS_SECRET_KEY
env:AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
The AWS secret key that corresponds to the access key.

aliases: aws_secret_access_key
aws_security_token
string
added in 0.2.0 of community.general
env:EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN
env:AWS_SESSION_TOKEN
env:AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN
The AWS security token if using temporary access and secret keys.
ca_cert
string
Path to certificate to use for authentication.

aliases: cacert
mount_point
string
Vault mount point, only required if you have a custom mount point.
namespace
string
env:VAULT_NAMESPACE
added in 1.2.0 of community.general
Namespace where secrets reside. Requires HVAC 0.7.0+ and Vault 0.11+.
password
string
Authentication password.
region
string
added in 0.2.0 of community.general
env:EC2_REGION
env:AWS_REGION
The AWS region for which to create the connection.
return_format
string
added in 0.2.0 of community.general
    Choices:
  • dict
  • values
  • raw
Controls how multiple key/value pairs in a path are treated on return.
dict returns a single dict containing the key/value pairs (same behavior as before community.general 0.2.0).
values returns a list of all the values only. Use when you don't care about the keys.
raw returns the actual API result, which includes metadata and may have the data nested in other keys.

aliases: as
role_id
string
ini entries:

[lookup_hashi_vault]
role_id = None

added in 0.2.0 of community.general
env:VAULT_ROLE_ID
Vault Role ID. Used in approle and aws_iam_login auth methods.
secret
string / required
query you are making.
secret_id
string
env:VAULT_SECRET_ID
Secret id for a vault AppRole auth.
token
string
env:VAULT_TOKEN
Vault token. If using token auth and no token is supplied, explicitly or through env, then the plugin will check
for a token file, as determined by token_path and token_file.
token_file
string
added in 0.2.0 of community.general
Default:
".vault-token"
ini entries:

[lookup_hashi_vault]
token_file = .vault-token

env:VAULT_TOKEN_FILE
added in 1.2.0 of community.general
If no token is specified, will try to read the token from this file in token_path.
token_path
string
added in 0.2.0 of community.general
ini entries:

[lookup_hashi_vault]
token_path = None

env:VAULT_TOKEN_PATH
added in 1.2.0 of community.general
If no token is specified, will try to read the token file from this path.
url
string
Default:
"http://127.0.0.1:8200"
ini entries:

[lookup_hashi_vault]
url = http://127.0.0.1:8200

added in 0.2.0 of community.general
env:VAULT_ADDR
URL to vault service.
username
string
Authentication user name.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Controls verification and validation of SSL certificates, mostly you only want to turn off with self signed ones.

Notes

Note

  • Due to a current limitation in the HVAC library there won’t necessarily be an error if a bad endpoint is specified.
  • As of community.general 0.2.0, only the latest version of a secret is returned when specifying a KV v2 path.
  • As of community.general 0.2.0, all options can be supplied via term string (space delimited key=value pairs) or by parameters (see examples).
  • As of community.general 0.2.0, when secret is the first option in the term string, secret= is not required (see examples).

Examples

- ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.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.general.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.general.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.general.hashi_vault', 'secret=secret/hello:value auth_method=userpass username=myuser password=psw url=http://myvault:8200') }}"

- name: Using an ssl vault
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.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.general.hashi_vault', 'secret/hi:value token=xxxx url=https://myvault:8200 validate_certs=True cacert=/cacert/path/ca.pem') }}"

- name: authenticate with a Vault app role
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.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.general.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.general.hashi_vault', 'secret=secret/data/hello token=my_vault_token url=http://myvault_url:8200') }}"

# The following examples work in collection releases after community.general 0.2.0

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

- name: return raw secret from API, including metadata
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    my_secret: "{{ lookup('community.general.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.general.hashi_vault', 'secret/hello:value', auth_method='aws_iam_login' role_id='myroleid', profile=my_boto_profile) }}"

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
_raw
list / elements=dictionary
success
secrets(s) requested



Authors

  • Jonathan Davila (!UNKNOWN) <jdavila(at)ansible.com>
  • Brian Scholer (@briantist)

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
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