community.general.revbitspss lookup – Get secrets from RevBits PAM server

Note

This lookup plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 9.5.1).

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.revbitspss.

New in community.general 4.1.0

Synopsis

  • Uses the revbits_ansible Python SDK to get Secrets from RevBits PAM Server using API key authentication with the REST API.

Requirements

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

Terms

Parameter

Comments

Terms

list / elements=string / required

This will be an array of keys for secrets which you want to fetch from RevBits PAM.

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.revbitspss', key1=value1, key2=value2, ...) and query('community.general.revbitspss', key1=value1, key2=value2, ...)

Parameter

Comments

api_key

string / required

This will be the API key for authentication. You can get it from the RevBits PAM secret manager module.

base_url

string / required

This will be the base URL of the server, for example https://server-url-here.

Notes

Note

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

Examples

- hosts: localhost
  vars:
      secret: >-
        {{
            lookup(
                'community.general.revbitspss',
                'UUIDPAM', 'DB_PASS',
                base_url='https://server-url-here',
                api_key='API_KEY_GOES_HERE'
            )
        }}
  tasks:
      - ansible.builtin.debug:
          msg: >
            UUIDPAM is {{ (secret['UUIDPAM']) }} and DB_PASS is {{ (secret['DB_PASS']) }}

Return Value

Key

Description

Return value

list / elements=dictionary

The JSON responses which you can access with defined keys.

If you are fetching secrets named as UUID, PASSWORD it will gives you the dict of all secrets.

Returned: success

Authors

  • RevBits (@RevBits)

Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.