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community.general.credstash lookup – retrieve secrets from Credstash on AWS

Note

This lookup plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 4.8.3).

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.

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

Synopsis

• Credstash is a small utility for managing secrets using AWS’s KMS and DynamoDB: https://github.com/fugue/credstash

Requirements

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

• credstash (python library)

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
_terms list / elements=string / required	term or list of terms to lookup in the credit store
aws_access_key_id string	AWS access key ID Configuration: Environment variable: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
aws_secret_access_key string	AWS access key Configuration: Environment variable: AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
aws_session_token string	AWS session token Configuration: Environment variable: AWS_SESSION_TOKEN
profile_name string	AWS profile to use for authentication Configuration: Environment variable: AWS_PROFILE
region string	AWS region
table string	name of the credstash table to query Default: “credential-store”
version string	Credstash version

Examples

- name: first use credstash to store your secrets
  ansible.builtin.shell: credstash put my-github-password secure123

- name: "Test credstash lookup plugin -- get my github password"
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "Credstash lookup! {{ lookup('community.general.credstash', 'my-github-password') }}"

- name: "Test credstash lookup plugin -- get my other password from us-west-1"
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "Credstash lookup! {{ lookup('community.general.credstash', 'my-other-password', region='us-west-1') }}"

- name: "Test credstash lookup plugin -- get the company's github password"
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "Credstash lookup! {{ lookup('community.general.credstash', 'company-github-password', table='company-passwords') }}"

- name: Example play using the 'context' feature
  hosts: localhost
  vars:
    context:
      app: my_app
      environment: production
  tasks:

  - name: "Test credstash lookup plugin -- get the password with a context passed as a variable"
    ansible.builtin.debug:
      msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.credstash', 'some-password', context=context) }}"

  - name: "Test credstash lookup plugin -- get the password with a context defined here"
    ansible.builtin.debug:
      msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.credstash', 'some-password', context=dict(app='my_app', environment='production')) }}"

Return Values

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

Key	Description
_raw string	Value(s) stored in Credstash. Returned: success

Authors

• Unknown

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.

Collection links

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