community.hashi_vault.vault_database_connection_delete module – Delete a Database Connection
Note
This module 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 module,
see Requirements for details.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.hashi_vault.vault_database_connection_delete.
New in community.hashi_vault 6.2.0
Synopsis
Deletes a Database Connection, identified by its
connection_namefrom HashiCorp Vault.
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
hvac(Python library)For detailed requirements, see the collection requirements page.
Parameters
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Authentication method to be used.
Choices:
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The AWS access key to use. |
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If specified, sets the value to use for the |
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The AWS profile |
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The AWS secret key that corresponds to the access key. |
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The AWS security token if using temporary access and secret keys. |
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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. |
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The client secret of the Azure AD service principal. |
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The resource URL for the application registered in Azure Active Directory. Usually should not be changed from the default. Default: |
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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. |
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Path to certificate to use for authentication. If not specified by any other means, the |
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For |
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For |
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The connection name to be deleted. |
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The path where the secret backend is mounted. |
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The JSON Web Token (JWT) to use for JWT authentication to Vault. |
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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. |
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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 |
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Authentication password. |
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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. |
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The AWS region for which to create the connection. |
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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. |
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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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Vault Role ID or name. Used in For For |
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Secret ID to be used for Vault AppRole authentication. |
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Sets the connection timeout in seconds. If not set, then the |
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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 |
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If no token is specified, will try to read the token from this file in token_path. Default: |
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If no token is specified, will try to read the token_file from this path. |
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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 |
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Authentication user name. |
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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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Attributes
Attribute |
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Action group: community.hashi_vault.vault |
Use |
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Support: partial In check mode, a sample response will be returned, but the deletion will not be performed in Hashicorp Vault. |
Can run in |
Notes
Note
This module always reports
changedstatus because it cannot guarantee idempotence.Use
changed_whento control that in cases where the operation is known to not change state.
Examples
- name: Delete a Database Connection with the default mount point
community.hashi_vault.vault_database_connection_delete:
url: https://vault:8201
auth_method: userpass
username: '{{ user }}'
password: '{{ passwd }}'
connection_name: SomeName
register: result
- name: Display the result of the operation
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ result }}"
- name: Delete a Database Connection with a custom mount point
community.hashi_vault.vault_database_connection_delete:
url: https://vault:8201
auth_method: userpass
username: '{{ user }}'
password: '{{ passwd }}'
engine_mount_point: db1
connection_name: SomeName
register: result
- name: Display the result of the operation
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ result }}"