hashivault_policy – Hashicorp Vault policy set module

Synopsis

  • Module to set a policy in Hashicorp Vault. Use hashivault_policy instead.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • hvac>=0.10.1

  • ansible>=2.0.0

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
authtype
-
    Choices:
  • token
  • userpass
  • github
  • ldap
  • approle
Default:
"token or environment variable `VAULT_AUTHTYPE`"
authentication type
aws_header
-
Default:
"to environment variable `VAULT_AWS_HEADER`"
X-Vault-AWS-IAM-Server-ID Header value to prevent replay attacks.
ca_cert
-
Default:
"to environment variable `VAULT_CACERT`"
Path to a PEM-encoded CA cert file to use to verify the Vault server TLS certificate
ca_path
-
Default:
"to environment variable `VAULT_CAPATH`"
Path to a directory of PEM-encoded CA cert files to verify the Vault server TLS certificate. If ca_cert is specified, its value will take precedence
client_cert
-
Default:
"to environment variable `VAULT_CLIENT_CERT`"
Path to a PEM-encoded client certificate for TLS authentication to the Vault server
client_key
-
Default:
"to environment variable `VAULT_CLIENT_KEY`"
Path to an unencrypted PEM-encoded private key matching the client certificate
login_mount_point
-
Default:
"value of authtype or environment varialbe `VAULT_LOGIN_MOUNT_POINT`"
authentication mount point
name
-
policy name.
namespace
-
Default:
"to environment variable VAULT_NAMESPACE"
namespace for vault
password
-
Default:
"to environment variable `VAULT_PASSWORD`"
password to login to vault.
rules
-
policy rules.
rules_file
-
name of local file to read for policy rules.
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
present or absent
token
-
Default:
"to environment variable `VAULT_TOKEN`"
token for vault
url
-
Default:
"to environment variable `VAULT_ADDR`"
url for vault
username
-
Default:
"to environment variable `VAULT_USER`"
username to login to vault.
verify
-
Default:
"to environment variable `VAULT_SKIP_VERIFY`"
If set, do not verify presented TLS certificate before communicating with Vault server. Setting this variable is not recommended except during testing

Examples

---
- hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - hashivault_policy:
        name: my_policy
        rules: '{{rules}}'

Status

Authors

  • UNKNOWN

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