VaultAPI 0.0.1

Lightweight API to store/retrieve secrets to/from an encrypted Database

VaultAPI

Lightweight API to store/retrieve secrets to/from an encrypted Database

Platform Supported

Deployments

Kick off

Recommendations

• Install python 3.10 or 3.11
• Use a dedicated virtual environment

Install VaultAPI

python -m pip install vaultapi

Initiate - IDE

import vaultapi


if __name__ == '__main__':
    vaultapi.start()

Initiate - CLI

vaultapi start

Use vaultapi --help for usage instructions.

Environment Variables

Sourcing environment variables from an env file

By default, VaultAPI will look for a .env file in the current working directory.

• HOST - Hostname for the API server.
• PORT - Port number for the API server.
• WORKERS - Number of workers for the uvicorn server.
• APIKEY - API Key for authentication.
• SECRET - Secret access key to encode/decode the secrets in Datastore.
• DATABASE - FilePath to store the secrets' database.
• RATE_LIMIT - List of dictionaries with max_requests and seconds to apply as rate limit.

Auto generate a SECRET value

This value will be used to encrypt/decrypt the secrets stored in the database.

CLI

vaultapi keygen

IDE

from cryptography.fernet import Fernet
print(Fernet.generate_key())

Coding Standards

Docstring format: Google
Styling conventions: PEP 8 and isort

Release Notes

Requirement

python -m pip install gitverse

Usage

gitverse-release reverse -f release_notes.rst -t 'Release Notes'

Linting

pre-commit will ensure linting, run pytest, generate runbook & release notes, and validate hyperlinks in ALL markdown files (including Wiki pages)

Requirement

python -m pip install sphinx==5.1.1 pre-commit recommonmark

Usage

pre-commit run --all-files

Pypi Package

https://pypi.org/project/VaultAPI/

Runbook

https://thevickypedia.github.io/VaultAPI/

License & copyright

© Vignesh Rao

Licensed under the MIT License