credstash – retrieve secrets from Credstash on AWS

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status

Synopsis

• Credstash is a small utility for managing secrets using AWS’s KMS and DynamoDB: https://github.com/fugue/credstash

Requirements

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

• credstash (python library)

Parameters

Examples

- name: first use credstash to store your secrets
  shell: credstash put my-github-password secure123

- name: "Test credstash lookup plugin -- get my github password"
  debug: msg="Credstash lookup! {{ lookup('credstash', 'my-github-password') }}"

- name: "Test credstash lookup plugin -- get my other password from us-west-1"
  debug: msg="Credstash lookup! {{ lookup('credstash', 'my-other-password', region='us-west-1') }}"

- name: "Test credstash lookup plugin -- get the company's github password"
  debug: msg="Credstash lookup! {{ lookup('credstash', 'company-github-password', table='company-passwords') }}"

- name: Example play using the 'context' feature
  hosts: localhost
  vars:
    context:
      app: my_app
      environment: production
  tasks:

  - name: "Test credstash lookup plugin -- get the password with a context passed as a variable"
    debug: msg="{{ lookup('credstash', 'some-password', context=context) }}"

  - name: "Test credstash lookup plugin -- get the password with a context defined here"
    debug: msg="{{ lookup('credstash', 'some-password', context=dict(app='my_app', environment='production')) }}"

Return Values

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

Status

• This lookup is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This lookup is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• UNKNOWN