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 7.1.0).

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_login.

New in community.hashi_vault 2.2.0

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 and was removed in 3.0.0.

azure auth method was added in collection version 3.2.0.

gcp auth method was added in collection version 7.1.0.

Choices:

  • "token" ← (default)

  • "userpass"

  • "ldap"

  • "approle"

  • "aws_iam"

  • "azure"

  • "jwt"

  • "cert"

  • "gcp"

  • "none"

aws_access_key

aliases: aws_access_key_id

string

The AWS access key to use.

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.

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.

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.

azure_client_secret

string

added in community.hashi_vault 3.2.0

The client secret of the Azure AD service principal.

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/"

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.

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 community.hashi_vault 1.4.0

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

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.

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

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.

region

string

The AWS region for which to create the connection.

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.

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)

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.

secret_id

string

Secret ID to be used for Vault AppRole authentication.

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.

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 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

  • true ← (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:

  • false

  • true

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

action_group

Action group: community.hashi_vault.vault

Use group/community.hashi_vault.vault in module_defaults to set defaults for this module.

check_mode

Support: partial

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=false in order to have a valid token that can be used.

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

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.

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

# GCP auth
- name: Login with GCP auth
  community.hashi_vault.vault_login:
    auth_method: gcp
    role_id: myroleid
    jwt: myjwt
    url: https://vault:8200
  register: gcp_login

- name: Read a secret using the GCP login token
  community.hashi_vault.vault_read:
    url: https://vault:8200
    token: '{{ gcp_login.login.auth.client_token }}'
    path: secret/data/foo

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)