community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault lookup – Retrieve secrets from HashiCorp’s Vault
Note
This lookup plugin is part of the community.hashi_vault collection (version 6.2.0).
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.hashi_vault.
You need further requirements to be able to use this lookup plugin,
see Requirements for details.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.hashi_vault.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)For detailed requirements, see the collection requirements page.
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.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', key1=value1, key2=value2, ...) and query('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', key1=value1, key2=value2, ...)
Parameter |
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Authentication method to be used.
Choices:
Configuration:
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The AWS access key to use. Configuration:
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If specified, sets the value to use for the Configuration:
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The AWS profile Configuration:
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The AWS secret key that corresponds to the access key. Configuration:
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The AWS security token if using temporary access and secret keys. Configuration:
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The client ID (also known as application ID) of the Azure AD service principal or managed identity. Should be a UUID. If not specified, will use the system assigned managed identity. Configuration:
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The client secret of the Azure AD service principal. Configuration:
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The resource URL for the application registered in Azure Active Directory. Usually should not be changed from the default. Default: Configuration:
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The Azure Active Directory Tenant ID (also known as the Directory ID) of the service principal. Should be a UUID. Required when using a service principal to authenticate to Vault, e.g. required when both azure_client_id and azure_client_secret are specified. Optional when using managed identity to authenticate to Vault. Configuration:
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Path to certificate to use for authentication. If not specified by any other means, the Configuration:
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For Configuration:
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For Configuration:
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The JSON Web Token (JWT) to use for JWT authentication to Vault. Configuration:
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Vault mount point. If not specified, the default mount point for a given auth method is used. Does not apply to token authentication. Configuration:
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Vault namespace where secrets reside. This option requires HVAC 0.7.0+ and Vault 0.11+. Optionally, this may be achieved by prefixing the authentication mount point and/or secret path with the namespace (e.g If environment variable Configuration:
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Authentication password. Configuration:
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URL(s) to the proxies used to access the Vault service. It can be a string or a dict. If it’s a dict, provide the scheme (eg. If it’s a string, provide a single URL that will be used as the proxy for both A string that can be interpreted as a dictionary will be converted to one (see examples). You can specify a different proxy for HTTP and HTTPS resources. If not specified, environment variables from the Requests library are used. Configuration:
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The AWS region for which to create the connection. Configuration:
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Allows for retrying on errors, based on the Retry class in the urllib3 library. This collection defines recommended defaults for retrying connections to Vault. This option can be specified as a positive number (integer) or dictionary. If this option is not specified or the number is A number sets the total number of retries, and uses collection defaults for the other settings. A dictionary value is used directly to initialize the For detailed information on retries, see the collection User Guide. Configuration:
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Controls whether and how to show messages on retries. This has no effect if a request is not retried. Choices:
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Controls how multiple key/value pairs in a path are treated on return.
Choices:
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Vault Role ID or name. Used in For For Configuration:
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Vault path to the secret being requested in the format |
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Secret ID to be used for Vault AppRole authentication. Configuration:
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Sets the connection timeout in seconds. If not set, then the Configuration:
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Vault token. Token may be specified explicitly, through the listed [env] vars, and also through the If 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. The order of token loading (first found wins) is Configuration:
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If no token is specified, will try to read the token from this file in token_path. Default: Configuration:
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If no token is specified, will try to read the token_file from this path. Configuration:
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For token auth, will perform a Disable if your token does not have the Choices:
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URL to the Vault service. If not specified by any other means, the value of the If Configuration:
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Authentication user name. Configuration:
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Controls verification and validation of SSL certificates, mostly you only want to turn off with self signed ones. Will be populated with the inverse of Will default to Choices:
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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.hashi_vault 0.1.0, only the latest version of a secret is returned when specifying a KV v2 path.
As of community.hashi_vault 0.1.0, all options can be supplied via term string (space delimited key=value pairs) or by parameters (see examples).
As of community.hashi_vault 0.1.0, when secret is the first option in the term string,
secret=is not required (see examples).
See Also
See also
- community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault Migration Guide
Migrating from the
hashi_vaultlookup.- About the community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault lookup
The past, present, and future of the
hashi_vaultlookup.- community.hashi_vault.vault_read lookup
The official documentation for the
community.hashi_vault.vault_readlookup plugin.- community.hashi_vault.vault_read
Perform a read operation against HashiCorp Vault.
- community.hashi_vault.vault_kv2_get lookup
The official documentation for the
community.hashi_vault.vault_kv2_getlookup plugin.- community.hashi_vault.vault_kv2_get
Get a secret from HashiCorp Vault’s KV version 2 secret store.
- community.hashi_vault.vault_kv1_get lookup
The official documentation for the
community.hashi_vault.vault_kv1_getlookup plugin.- community.hashi_vault.vault_kv1_get
Get a secret from HashiCorp Vault’s KV version 1 secret store.
- community.hashi_vault Lookup Guide
Guidance on using lookups in
community.hashi_vault.
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
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret/hello:value', auth_method='aws_iam', 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 Value
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secrets(s) requested Returned: success |