community.hashi_vault.vault_read lookup – Perform a read operation against HashiCorp Vault
Note
This lookup plugin is part of the community.hashi_vault collection (version 5.0.1).
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_read.
New in community.hashi_vault 1.4.0
Synopsis
Performs a generic read operation against a given path in HashiCorp 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.
Terms
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Vault path(s) to be read. |
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.vault_read', key1=value1, key2=value2, ...) and query('community.hashi_vault.vault_read', key1=value1, key2=value2, ...)
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Authentication method to be used.
Choices:
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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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Vault Role ID or name. Used in For For Configuration:
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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
When keyword and positional parameters are used together, positional parameters must be listed before keyword parameters:
lookup('community.hashi_vault.vault_read', term1, term2, key1=value1, key2=value2)andquery('community.hashi_vault.vault_read', term1, term2, key1=value1, key2=value2)
See Also
See also
- community.hashi_vault.vault_read
Perform a read operation against HashiCorp Vault.
- community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault lookup
The official documentation for the
community.hashi_vault.hashi_vaultlookup plugin.
Examples
- name: Read a kv2 secret
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.vault_read', 'secret/data/hello', url='https://vault:8201') }}"
- name: Retrieve an approle role ID
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.vault_read', 'auth/approle/role/role-name/role-id', url='https://vault:8201') }}"
- name: Perform multiple reads with a single Vault login
vars:
paths:
- secret/data/hello
- auth/approle/role/role-one/role-id
- auth/approle/role/role-two/role-id
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.vault_read', *paths, auth_method='userpass', username=user, password=pwd) }}"
- name: Perform multiple reads with a single Vault login in a loop
vars:
paths:
- secret/data/hello
- auth/approle/role/role-one/role-id
- auth/approle/role/role-two/role-id
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: '{{ item }}'
loop: "{{ query('community.hashi_vault.vault_read', *paths, auth_method='userpass', username=user, password=pwd) }}"
- name: Perform multiple reads with a single Vault login in a loop (via with_)
vars:
ansible_hashi_vault_auth_method: userpass
ansible_hashi_vault_username: '{{ user }}'
ansible_hashi_vault_password: '{{ pwd }}'
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: '{{ item }}'
with_community.hashi_vault.vault_read:
- secret/data/hello
- auth/approle/role/role-one/role-id
- auth/approle/role/role-two/role-id
Return Value
Key |
Description |
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The raw result of the read against the given path. Returned: success |