community.hashi_vault.vault_token_create lookup – Create a HashiCorp Vault token

Note

This lookup plugin is part of the community.hashi_vault collection (version 4.2.1).

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.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.vault_token_create.

New in community.hashi_vault 2.3.0

Synopsis

  • Creates a token in HashiCorp Vault, returning the response, including the token.

Requirements

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

Terms

Parameter

Comments

Terms

string

This is unused and any terms supplied will be ignored.

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 and was removed in 3.0.0.

azure auth method was added in collection version 3.2.0.

Choices:

  • "token" ← (default)

  • "userpass"

  • "ldap"

  • "approle"

  • "aws_iam"

  • "azure"

  • "jwt"

  • "cert"

  • "none"

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [hashi_vault_collection]
    auth_method = token
    

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.4.0

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_AUTH_METHOD

    added in community.hashi_vault 0.2.0

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_auth_method

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.2.0

aws_access_key

aliases: aws_access_key_id

string

The AWS access key to use.

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: EC2_ACCESS_KEY

  • Environment variable: AWS_ACCESS_KEY

  • Environment variable: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID

aws_iam_server_id

string

added in community.hashi_vault 0.2.0

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

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [hashi_vault_collection]
    aws_iam_server_id = VALUE
    

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.4.0

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_AWS_IAM_SERVER_ID

aws_profile

aliases: boto_profile

string

The AWS profile

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE

  • Environment variable: AWS_PROFILE

aws_secret_key

aliases: aws_secret_access_key

string

The AWS secret key that corresponds to the access key.

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: EC2_SECRET_KEY

  • Environment variable: AWS_SECRET_KEY

  • Environment variable: AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

aws_security_token

string

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

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN

  • Environment variable: AWS_SESSION_TOKEN

  • Environment variable: AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN

azure_client_id

string

added in community.hashi_vault 3.2.0

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:

  • INI entry:

    [hashi_vault_collection]
    azure_client_id = VALUE
    
  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_AZURE_CLIENT_ID

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_azure_client_id

azure_client_secret

string

added in community.hashi_vault 3.2.0

The client secret of the Azure AD service principal.

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_azure_client_secret

azure_resource

string

added in community.hashi_vault 3.2.0

The resource URL for the application registered in Azure Active Directory. Usually should not be changed from the default.

Default: "https://management.azure.com/"

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [hashi_vault_collection]
    azure_resource = https://management.azure.com/
    
  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_AZURE_RESOURCE

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_azure_resource

azure_tenant_id

string

added in community.hashi_vault 3.2.0

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:

  • INI entry:

    [hashi_vault_collection]
    azure_tenant_id = VALUE
    
  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_AZURE_TENANT_ID

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_azure_tenant_id

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.

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [hashi_vault_collection]
    ca_cert = VALUE
    

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.4.0

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_CA_CERT

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.2.0

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_ca_cert

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.2.0

cert_auth_private_key

path

added in community.hashi_vault 1.4.0

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

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [hashi_vault_collection]
    cert_auth_private_key = VALUE
    
  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_CERT_AUTH_PRIVATE_KEY

cert_auth_public_key

path

added in community.hashi_vault 1.4.0

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

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [hashi_vault_collection]
    cert_auth_public_key = VALUE
    
  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_CERT_AUTH_PUBLIC_KEY

display_name

string

The display name of the token.

entity_alias

string

Name of the entity alias to associate with during token creation.

Only works in combination with role_name option and used entity alias must be listed in allowed_entity_aliases.

If this has been specified, the entity will not be inherited from the parent.

explicit_max_ttl

string

If set, the token will have an explicit max TTL set upon it.

This maximum token TTL cannot be changed later, and unlike with normal tokens, updates to the system/mount max TTL value will have no effect at renewal time.

The token will never be able to be renewed or used past the value set at issue time.

id

string

The ID of the client token. Can only be specified by a root token.

The ID provided may not contain a . character.

Otherwise, the token ID is a randomly generated value.

jwt

string

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

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_JWT

meta

dictionary

A dict of string to string valued metadata. This is passed through to the audit devices.

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.

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [hashi_vault_collection]
    mount_point = VALUE
    

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.5.0

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_MOUNT_POINT

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.5.0

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_mount_point

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.5.0

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.

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [hashi_vault_collection]
    namespace = VALUE
    

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.4.0

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_NAMESPACE

    added in community.hashi_vault 0.2.0

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_namespace

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.2.0

no_default_policy

boolean

If true the default policy will not be contained in this token’s policy set.

If the token will be used with this collection, set token_validate=false.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

no_parent

boolean

This option only has effect if used by a root or sudo caller and only when orphan=false.

When true, the token created will not have a parent.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

num_uses

integer

The maximum uses for the given token. This can be used to create a one-time-token or limited use token.

The value of 0 has no limit to the number of uses.

orphan

boolean

When true, uses the /create-orphan API endpoint, which requires sudo (but not root) to create an orphan.

With hvac>=1.0.0, requires collection version >=3.3.0.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

password

string

Authentication password.

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_PASSWORD

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.2.0

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_password

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.2.0

period

string

If specified, the token will be periodic.

It will have no maximum TTL (unless an explicit_max_ttl is also set) but every renewal will use the given period.

Requires a root token or one with the sudo capability.

policies

list / elements=string

A list of policies for the token. This must be a subset of the policies belonging to the token making the request, unless root.

If not specified, defaults to all the policies of the calling token.

proxies

any

added in community.hashi_vault 1.1.0

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.

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [hashi_vault_collection]
    proxies = VALUE
    

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.4.0

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_PROXIES

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_proxies

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.2.0

region

string

The AWS region for which to create the connection.

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: EC2_REGION

  • Environment variable: AWS_REGION

renewable

boolean

Set to false to disable the ability of the token to be renewed past its initial TTL.

Setting the value to true will allow the token to be renewable up to the system/mount maximum TTL.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

retries

any

added in community.hashi_vault 1.3.0

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.

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [hashi_vault_collection]
    retries = VALUE
    

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.4.0

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_RETRIES

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_retries

retry_action

string

added in community.hashi_vault 1.3.0

Controls whether and how to show messages on retries.

This has no effect if a request is not retried.

Choices:

  • "ignore"

  • "warn" ← (default)

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [hashi_vault_collection]
    retry_action = warn
    

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.4.0

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_RETRY_ACTION

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_retry_action

role_id

string

Vault Role ID or name. Used in approle, aws_iam, azure 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.

For azure auth, role_id is required.

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [hashi_vault_collection]
    role_id = VALUE
    

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.4.0

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_ROLE_ID

    added in community.hashi_vault 0.2.0

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_role_id

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.2.0

role_name

string

The name of the token role. If used, the token will be created against the specified role name which may override options set during this call.

secret_id

string

Secret ID to be used for Vault AppRole authentication.

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_SECRET_ID

    added in community.hashi_vault 0.2.0

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_secret_id

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.2.0

timeout

integer

added in community.hashi_vault 1.3.0

Sets the connection timeout in seconds.

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

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [hashi_vault_collection]
    timeout = VALUE
    

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.4.0

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_TIMEOUT

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_timeout

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.

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_TOKEN

    added in community.hashi_vault 0.2.0

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_token

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.2.0

token_file

string

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

Default: ".vault-token"

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [hashi_vault_collection]
    token_file = .vault-token
    

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.4.0

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_TOKEN_FILE

    added in community.hashi_vault 0.2.0

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_token_file

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.2.0

token_path

string

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

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [hashi_vault_collection]
    token_path = VALUE
    

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.4.0

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_TOKEN_PATH

    added in community.hashi_vault 0.2.0

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_token_path

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.2.0

token_validate

boolean

added in community.hashi_vault 0.2.0

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:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [hashi_vault_collection]
    token_validate = false
    

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.4.0

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_TOKEN_VALIDATE

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_token_validate

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.2.0

ttl

string

The TTL period of the token, provided as 1h for example, where hour is the largest suffix.

If not provided, the token is valid for the default lease TTL, or indefinitely if the root policy is used.

type

string

The token type. The default is determined by the role configuration specified by role_name.

Choices:

  • "batch"

  • "service"

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.

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [hashi_vault_collection]
    url = VALUE
    

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.4.0

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_ADDR

    added in community.hashi_vault 0.2.0

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_url

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.2.0

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_addr

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.2.0

username

string

Authentication user name.

Configuration:

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_HASHI_VAULT_USERNAME

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.2.0

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_username

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.2.0

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:

  • false

  • true

Configuration:

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_validate_certs

    added in community.hashi_vault 1.2.0

wrap_ttl

string

Specifies response wrapping token creation with duration. For example 15s, 20m, 25h.

Configuration:

  • Variable: ansible_hashi_vault_wrap_ttl

Notes

Note

  • Token creation is a write operation (creating a token persisted to storage), so this module always reports changed=True.

  • For the purposes of Ansible playbooks however, it may be more useful to set changed_when=false if you are doing idempotency checks against the target system.

  • In check mode, this module will not create a token, 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_token_create

The official documentation on the community.hashi_vault.vault_token_create module.

community.hashi_vault.vault_login lookup

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

community.hashi_vault.vault_login

The official documentation on the community.hashi_vault.vault_login module.

community.hashi_vault.vault_login_token filter

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

Examples

- name: Login via userpass and create a child token
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    token_data: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.vault_token_create', url='https://vault', auth_method='userpass', username=user, password=passwd) }}"

- name: Retrieve an approle role ID using the child token (token via filter)
  community.hashi_vault.vault_read:
    url: https://vault:8201
    auth_method: token
    token: '{{ token_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: '{{ token_data.auth.client_token }}'
    path: auth/approle/role/role-name/role-id
  register: approle_id

# implicitly uses url & token auth with a token from the environment
- name: Create an orphaned token with a short TTL and display the full response
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    var: lookup('community.hashi_vault.vault_token_create', orphan=True, ttl='60s')

Return Value

Key

Description

Return value

dictionary

The result of the token creation operation.

Returned: success

Sample: {"auth": {"client_token": "s.rlwajI2bblHAWU7uPqZhLru3"}, "data": null}

auth

dictionary

The auth member of the token response.

Returned: success

client_token

string

Contains the newly created token.

Returned: success

data

dictionary

The data member of the token response.

Returned: success, when available

Authors

  • Brian Scholer (@briantist)

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.