Vault Secrets Buildkite Plugin

A simple buildkite plugin to map a Vault secret to a Step environment variable

Requirements

vault and jq are expected to be installed on your Buildkite worker.

Usage

Add the following to your pipeline.yml:

steps:
  - command: "<your-command>"
    plugins:
      - elastic/vault-secrets#v0.0.5:
          path: "secret/ci/elastic-<repo-name>/<secret-name>"
          field: "<secret-field-name>" # OPTIONAL
          env_var: "<environment-variable-mapping-secret>" # OPTIONAL
          path_depth: "2" # OPTIONAL

• field specifies the exact Vault secret field to retrieve. When field isn't defined, the entire secret is retrieved in json format
• env_var specifies the name of the environment variable that will contain the secret. When env_var is not specified, the name of the environment variable will be generated using this scheme: <UPPERCASE_SECRET_NAME>[_<UPPERCASE_FIELD_NAME>]_SECRET. Note that if you do specify an env_var, you should use one of the patterns that will ensure Buildkite will redact the secret, see the docs for details.
• path_depth specifies the number of elements of the path to use in the variable name when env_var isn't defined. When not defined the default value is 2

Please refer to the test pipeline and scripts in ths .buildkite directory as examples.