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

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• 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)
• 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

Notes

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: Connect to Vault using TLS
  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) }}"

# The following examples work in collection releases after community.general 1.3.0

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

Return Values

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

Authors

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