community.sops.sops_encrypt module – Encrypt data with sops

Note

This module is part of the community.sops collection (version 1.6.7).

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.sops.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.sops.sops_encrypt.

New in community.sops 0.1.0

Synopsis

  • Allows to encrypt binary data (Base64 encoded), text data, JSON or YAML data with sops.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

age

list / elements=string

added in community.sops 1.4.0

Age fingerprints to use.

This corresponds to the sops --age option.

age_key

string

added in community.sops 1.4.0

One or more age private keys that can be used to decrypt encrypted files.

Will be set as the SOPS_AGE_KEY environment variable when calling sops.

age_keyfile

path

added in community.sops 1.4.0

The file containing the age private keys that sops can use to decrypt encrypted files.

Will be set as the SOPS_AGE_KEY_FILE environment variable when calling sops.

By default, sops looks for sops/age/keys.txt inside your user configuration directory.

attributes

aliases: attr

string

The attributes the resulting filesystem object should have.

To get supported flags look at the man page for chattr on the target system.

This string should contain the attributes in the same order as the one displayed by lsattr.

The = operator is assumed as default, otherwise + or - operators need to be included in the string.

aws_access_key_id

string

added in community.sops 1.0.0

The AWS access key ID to use for requests to AWS.

Sets the environment variable AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID for the sops call.

aws_profile

string

added in community.sops 1.0.0

The AWS profile to use for requests to AWS.

This corresponds to the sops --aws-profile option.

aws_secret_access_key

string

added in community.sops 1.0.0

The AWS secret access key to use for requests to AWS.

Sets the environment variable AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY for the sops call.

aws_session_token

string

added in community.sops 1.0.0

The AWS session token to use for requests to AWS.

Sets the environment variable AWS_SESSION_TOKEN for the sops call.

azure_kv

list / elements=string

added in community.sops 1.0.0

Azure Key Vault URLs to use.

This corresponds to the sops --azure-kv option.

config_path

path

added in community.sops 1.0.0

Path to the sops configuration file.

If not set, sops will recursively search for the config file starting at the file that is encrypted or decrypted.

This corresponds to the sops --config option.

content_binary

string

The data to encrypt. Must be Base64 encoded binary data.

Please note that the module might not be idempotent if the data can be parsed as JSON or YAML.

Exactly one of content_text, content_binary, content_json, and content_yaml must be specified.

content_json

dictionary

The data to encrypt. Must be a JSON dictionary.

Exactly one of content_text, content_binary, content_json, and content_yaml must be specified.

content_text

string

The data to encrypt. Must be a Unicode text.

Please note that the module might not be idempotent if the text can be parsed as JSON or YAML.

Exactly one of content_text, content_binary, content_json, and content_yaml must be specified.

content_yaml

dictionary

The data to encrypt. Must be a YAML dictionary.

Please note that Ansible only allows to pass data that can be represented as a JSON dictionary.

Exactly one of content_text, content_binary, content_json, and content_yaml must be specified.

enable_local_keyservice

boolean

added in community.sops 1.0.0

Tell sops to use local key service.

This corresponds to the sops --enable-local-keyservice option.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

encrypted_regex

string

added in community.sops 1.0.0

Set the encrypted key suffix.

When specified, only keys matching the regular expression will be encrypted.

This corresponds to the sops --encrypted-regex option.

encrypted_suffix

string

added in community.sops 1.0.0

Override the encrypted key suffix.

When set to an empty string, all keys will be encrypted that are not explicitly marked by unencrypted_suffix.

This corresponds to the sops --encrypted-suffix option.

encryption_context

list / elements=string

added in community.sops 1.0.0

List of KMS encryption context pairs of format key:value.

This corresponds to the sops --encryption-context option.

force

boolean

Force rewriting the encrypted file.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

gcp_kms

list / elements=string

added in community.sops 1.0.0

GCP KMS resource IDs to use.

This corresponds to the sops --gcp-kms option.

group

string

Name of the group that should own the filesystem object, as would be fed to chown.

When left unspecified, it uses the current group of the current user unless you are root, in which case it can preserve the previous ownership.

hc_vault_transit

list / elements=string

added in community.sops 1.0.0

HashiCorp Vault key URIs to use.

For example, https://vault.example.org:8200/v1/transit/keys/dev.

This corresponds to the sops --hc-vault-transit option.

keyservice

list / elements=string

added in community.sops 1.0.0

Specify key services to use next to the local one.

A key service must be specified in the form protocol://address, for example tcp://myserver.com:5000.

This corresponds to the sops --keyservice option.

kms

list / elements=string

added in community.sops 1.0.0

List of KMS ARNs to use.

This corresponds to the sops --kms option.

mode

any

The permissions the resulting filesystem object should have.

For those used to /usr/bin/chmod remember that modes are actually octal numbers. You must give Ansible enough information to parse them correctly. For consistent results, quote octal numbers (for example, '644' or '1777') so Ansible receives a string and can do its own conversion from string into number. Adding a leading zero (for example, 0755) works sometimes, but can fail in loops and some other circumstances.

Giving Ansible a number without following either of these rules will end up with a decimal number which will have unexpected results.

As of Ansible 1.8, the mode may be specified as a symbolic mode (for example, u+rwx or u=rw,g=r,o=r).

If mode is not specified and the destination filesystem object does not exist, the default umask on the system will be used when setting the mode for the newly created filesystem object.

If mode is not specified and the destination filesystem object does exist, the mode of the existing filesystem object will be used.

Specifying mode is the best way to ensure filesystem objects are created with the correct permissions. See CVE-2020-1736 for further details.

owner

string

Name of the user that should own the filesystem object, as would be fed to chown.

When left unspecified, it uses the current user unless you are root, in which case it can preserve the previous ownership.

Specifying a numeric username will be assumed to be a user ID and not a username. Avoid numeric usernames to avoid this confusion.

path

path / required

The sops encrypt file.

pgp

list / elements=string

added in community.sops 1.0.0

PGP fingerprints to use.

This corresponds to the sops --pgp option.

selevel

string

The level part of the SELinux filesystem object context.

This is the MLS/MCS attribute, sometimes known as the range.

When set to _default, it will use the level portion of the policy if available.

serole

string

The role part of the SELinux filesystem object context.

When set to _default, it will use the role portion of the policy if available.

setype

string

The type part of the SELinux filesystem object context.

When set to _default, it will use the type portion of the policy if available.

seuser

string

The user part of the SELinux filesystem object context.

By default it uses the system policy, where applicable.

When set to _default, it will use the user portion of the policy if available.

shamir_secret_sharing_threshold

integer

added in community.sops 1.0.0

The number of distinct keys required to retrieve the data key with Shamir’s Secret Sharing.

If not set here and in the sops config file, will default to 0.

This corresponds to the sops --shamir-secret-sharing-threshold option.

sops_binary

path

added in community.sops 1.0.0

Path to the sops binary.

By default uses sops.

unencrypted_regex

string

added in community.sops 1.0.0

Set the unencrypted key suffix.

When specified, only keys matching the regular expression will be left unencrypted.

This corresponds to the sops --unencrypted-regex option.

unencrypted_suffix

string

added in community.sops 1.0.0

Override the unencrypted key suffix.

This corresponds to the sops --unencrypted-suffix option.

unsafe_writes

boolean

Influence when to use atomic operation to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target filesystem object.

By default this module uses atomic operations to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target filesystem objects, but sometimes systems are configured or just broken in ways that prevent this. One example is docker mounted filesystem objects, which cannot be updated atomically from inside the container and can only be written in an unsafe manner.

This option allows Ansible to fall back to unsafe methods of updating filesystem objects when atomic operations fail (however, it doesn’t force Ansible to perform unsafe writes).

IMPORTANT! Unsafe writes are subject to race conditions and can lead to data corruption.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

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

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

safe_file_operations

Support: full

Uses Ansible’s strict file operation functions to ensure proper permissions and avoid data corruption.

See Also

See also

community.sops.sops lookup plugin

The sops lookup can be used decrypt sops-encrypted files.

Examples

- name: Encrypt a secret text
  community.sops.sops_encrypt:
    path: text-data.sops
    content_text: This is a secret text.

- name: Encrypt the contents of a file
  community.sops.sops_encrypt:
    path: binary-data.sops
    content_binary: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.file', '/path/to/file', rstrip=false) | b64encode }}"

- name: Encrypt some datastructure as YAML
  community.sops.sops_encrypt:
    path: stuff.sops.yaml
    content_yaml: "{{ result }}"

Authors

  • Felix Fontein (@felixfontein)