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amazon-web-servicesterraformaws-secrets-manager
user_mda
user_mda

Reputation: 19378

How to retrieve a secret in terraform from aws secret manager

I have a secret stored in secrets manager to which I have access to the arn. I want to retrieve the value from this arn and use it in terraform how can I achieve this?

I found this from terraform website

data "aws_secretsmanager_secret" "by-arn" {
  arn = "arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-east-1:123456789012:secret:example-123456"
}

How do I then retrieve the value? Meaning what is the "get-value" equivalent in terraform for an EC2 isntance?

Upvotes: 45

Views: 87574

Answers (4)

m_drinks_coffee
m_drinks_coffee

Reputation: 507

Instead of hardcoding ARN or the AWS account ID

    data "aws_secretsmanager_secret" "example_secret" {
      name = "<secret_name>" # As stored in the AWS Secrets Manager
    }

    # Give a meaningful name to the version for easy identification
    # If multiple secrets are present
    data "aws_secretsmanager_secret_version" "example_latest_ver" {
      secret_id = data.aws_secretsmanager_secret.example_secret.id
    }

And, simply refer this in your code as data.aws_secretsmanager_secret_version.example_latest_ver.secret_string

To find out, the current AWS account ID, use ${data.aws_caller_identity.current.account_id}

Upvotes: 9

Sufiyan Ghori
Sufiyan Ghori

Reputation: 18743

Please note that Terraform 0.14 added the ability to redact Sensitive values in console output.

Therefore, if you are using Terraform > 0.14, you will have to use nonsensitive function to expose the actual secret value.

nonsensitive function takes a sensitive value and returns a copy of that value with the sensitive marking removed, thereby exposing the actual value.

data "aws_secretsmanager_secret" "secrets" {
  arn = "arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-east-1:123456789012:secret:my_secrety_name-123456"
}

data "aws_secretsmanager_secret_version" "current" {
  secret_id = data.aws_secretsmanager_secret.secrets.id
}

output "sensitive_example_hash" {
  value = jsondecode(nonsensitive(data.aws_secretsmanager_secret_version.current.secret_string))
}

Upvotes: 15

pabloxio
pabloxio

Reputation: 1493

Here is an example. By default, aws_secretsmanager_secret_version retrieves information based on the AWSCURRENT label (a.k.a. the latest version):

data "aws_secretsmanager_secret" "secrets" {
  arn = "arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-east-1:123456789012:secret:my_secrety_name-123456"
}

data "aws_secretsmanager_secret_version" "current" {
  secret_id = data.aws_secretsmanager_secret.secrets.id
}

And use data.aws_secretsmanager_secret_version.current.secret_string to get the secret. If you want to retrieve a specific value inside that secret like DATABASE_URL you can use the built-in function jsondecode:

jsondecode(data.aws_secretsmanager_secret_version.current.secret_string)["DATABASE_URL"]

Upvotes: 78

weichung.shaw
weichung.shaw

Reputation: 152

aws_secretsmanager_secret is a AWS secretsmanager secret object, but a secret can have multiple versions, and the values are stored in the versions, not in the parent secret object.

So this is what you're looking for instead: https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/r/secretsmanager_secret_version.html (and it describes how to get the value of the secret version, ie. aws_secretsmanager_secret_version.example.secret_string).

Upvotes: 1

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