vault-action

A helper action for retrieving vault secrets as env vars.

Example Usage

jobs:
    build:
        # ...
        steps:
            # ...
            - name: Import Secrets
              uses: richicoder1/vault-action
              with:
                vaultUrl: https://vault.mycompany.com
                vaultToken: ${{ secrets.VaultToken }}
                keys: |
                    ci_key ;
                    ci/aws > $.accessKey | AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID ;
                    ci/aws > $.secretKey | AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY ;
                    ci/npm_token | NPM_TOKEN                    
            # ...

Key Syntax

The keys parameter is multiple keys separated by the ; character.

Each key is comprised of the path of they key, and optionally a JSONPath expression and an output name.

{{ Key Path }} > {{ JSONPath Query }} | {{ Output Environment Variable Name }}

Simple Key

To retrieve a key ci/npm_token that has value somelongtoken from vault you could do:

with:
    keys: ci/npm_token

vault-action will automatically normalize the given path, and output:

CI__NPM_TOKEN=somelongtoken

Set Environment Variable Name

However, if you want to set it to a specific environmental variable, say NPM_TOKEN, you could do this instead:

with:
    keys: ci/npm_token | NPM_TOKEN

With that, vault-action will now use your request name and output:

NPM_TOKEN=somelongtoken

JSON Key

Say you are storing a set of AWS keys as a JSON document in Vault like so:

{
    "accessKey": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
    "secretKey": "wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY"
}

And you want to set them to AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY respectively so you could use the AWS CLI:

with:
    keys: |
        ci/aws > $.accessKey | AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID ;
        ci/aws > $.secretKey | AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY        

This would output:

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY

Masking

This action uses Github Action's built in masking, so all variables will automatically be masked if printed to the console or to logs.