community.hashi_vault.vault_login module – Perform a login operation against HashiCorp Vault

Note

This module is part of the community.hashi_vault collection (version 2.5.0).

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.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.hashi_vault.vault_login.

New in version 2.2.0: of community.hashi_vault

Synopsis

  • Performs a login operation against a given path in HashiCorp Vault, returning the login response, including the token.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

auth_method

string

Authentication method to be used.

none auth method was added in collection version 1.2.0.

cert auth method was added in collection version 1.4.0.

aws_iam_login was renamed aws_iam in collection version 2.1.0. The old name will be removed in 3.0.0.

Choices:

  • token ← (default)

  • userpass

  • ldap

  • approle

  • aws_iam

  • aws_iam_login

  • jwt

  • cert

  • none

aws_access_key

aliases: aws_access_key_id

string

The AWS access key to use.

aws_iam_server_id

string

added in 0.2.0 of community.hashi_vault

If specified, sets the value to use for the X-Vault-AWS-IAM-Server-ID header as part of GetCallerIdentity request.

aws_profile

aliases: boto_profile

string

The AWS profile

aws_secret_key

aliases: aws_secret_access_key

string

The AWS secret key that corresponds to the access key.

aws_security_token

string

The AWS security token if using temporary access and secret keys.

ca_cert

aliases: cacert

string

Path to certificate to use for authentication.

If not specified by any other means, the VAULT_CACERT environment variable will be used.

cert_auth_private_key

path

added in 1.4.0 of community.hashi_vault

For cert auth, path to the private key file to authenticate with, in PEM format.

cert_auth_public_key

path

added in 1.4.0 of community.hashi_vault

For cert auth, path to the certificate file to authenticate with, in PEM format.

jwt

string

The JSON Web Token (JWT) to use for JWT authentication to Vault.

mount_point

string

Vault mount point.

If not specified, the default mount point for a given auth method is used.

Does not apply to token authentication.

namespace

string

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 mynamespace/secret/mysecret).

If environment variable VAULT_NAMESPACE is set, its value will be used last among all ways to specify namespace.

password

string

Authentication password.

proxies

raw

added in 1.1.0 of community.hashi_vault

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. http or https) as the key, and the URL as the value.

If it’s a string, provide a single URL that will be used as the proxy for both http and https schemes.

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.

region

string

The AWS region for which to create the connection.

retries

raw

added in 1.3.0 of community.hashi_vault

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 0, then retries are disabled.

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 Retry class, so it can be used to fully customize retries.

For detailed information on retries, see the collection User Guide.

retry_action

string

added in 1.3.0 of community.hashi_vault

Controls whether and how to show messages on retries.

This has no effect if a request is not retried.

Choices:

  • ignore

  • warn ← (default)

role_id

string

Vault Role ID or name. Used in approle, aws_iam, and cert auth methods.

For cert auth, if no role_id is supplied, the default behavior is to try all certificate roles and return any one that matches.

secret_id

string

Secret ID to be used for Vault AppRole authentication.

timeout

integer

added in 1.3.0 of community.hashi_vault

Sets the connection timeout in seconds.

If not set, then the hvac library’s default is used.

token

string

Vault token. Token may be specified explicitly, through the listed [env] vars, and also through the VAULT_TOKEN env var.

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 token param -> ansible var -> ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_TOKEN -> VAULT_TOKEN -> token file.

token_file

string

If no token is specified, will try to read the token from this file in token_path.

Default: “.vault-token”

token_path

string

If no token is specified, will try to read the token_file from this path.

token_validate

boolean

added in 0.2.0 of community.hashi_vault

For token auth, will perform a lookup-self operation to determine the token’s validity before using it.

Disable if your token does not have the lookup-self capability.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

url

string

URL to the Vault service.

If not specified by any other means, the value of the VAULT_ADDR environment variable will be used.

If VAULT_ADDR is also not defined then an error will be raised.

username

string

Authentication user name.

validate_certs

boolean

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 VAULT_SKIP_VERIFY if that is set and validate_certs is not explicitly provided.

Will default to true if neither validate_certs or VAULT_SKIP_VERIFY are set.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

Notes

Note

  • A login is a write operation (creating a token persisted to storage), so this module always reports changed=True, except when used with token auth, because no new token is created in that case. For the purposes of Ansible playbooks however, it may be more useful to set changed_when=false if you’re doing idempotency checks against the target system.

  • The none auth method is not valid for this module because there is no response to return.

  • With token auth, no actual login is performed. Instead, the given token’s additional information is returned in a structure that resembles what login responses look like.

  • The token auth method will only return full information if token_validate=True. If the token does not have the lookup-self capability, this will fail. If token_validate=False, only the token value itself will be returned in the structure.

  • In check mode, this module will not perform a login, and will instead return a basic structure with an empty token. However this may not be useful if the token is required for follow on tasks. It may be better to use this module with check_mode=no in order to have a valid token that can be used.

See Also

See also

community.hashi_vault.vault_login lookup

The official documentation for the community.hashi_vault.vault_login lookup plugin.

community.hashi_vault.vault_login_token filter

The official documentation for the community.hashi_vault.vault_login_token filter plugin.

Examples

- name: Login and use the resulting token
  community.hashi_vault.vault_login:
    url: https://vault:8201
    auth_method: userpass
    username: user
    password: '{{ passwd }}'
  register: login_data

- name: Retrieve an approle role ID (token via filter)
  community.hashi_vault.vault_read:
    url: https://vault:8201
    auth_method: token
    token: '{{ login_data | community.hashi_vault.vault_login_token }}'
    path: auth/approle/role/role-name/role-id
  register: approle_id

- name: Retrieve an approle role ID (token via direct dict access)
  community.hashi_vault.vault_read:
    url: https://vault:8201
    auth_method: token
    token: '{{ login_data.login.auth.client_token }}'
    path: auth/approle/role/role-name/role-id
  register: approle_id

Return Values

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

Key

Description

login

dictionary

The result of the login against the given auth method.

Returned: success

auth

dictionary

The auth member of the login response.

Returned: success

client_token

string

Contains the token provided by the login operation (or the input token when auth_method=token).

Returned: success

data

dictionary

The data member of the login response.

Returned: success, when available

Authors

  • Brian Scholer (@briantist)