aws-vault

version number: 0.1.1 author: Spacetime Labs

Why

It's pretty handy using the AWS Secrets Manager to store sensitive KEY and VALUE pars such as an AWS bucket, database, credentials to external API and other services. Then you'll need something simple to get those secrets in your project rather than using boto directly, you also might need an environment variables fall back and have multiple environment (testing, staging, production) support.

Overview

Given secrets created in the AWS Secrets Manager:

Installation / Usage

To install use pip:

$ pip install awsvault

Or clone the repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/spacetimelabs/awsvault.git
$ python setup.py install

Usage

Basic usage

from awsvault import Vault

vault = Vault("myproject/email/prod")
email_user = vault.get("EMAIL_USER")
email_password = vault.get("EMAIL_PASS")

More than on set of secrets

from awsvault import Vault

vault = Vault("myproject/email/prod,myproject/database/prod")
email_user = vault.get("EMAIL_USER")
email_password = vault.get("EMAIL_PASS")

db_hostname = vault.get("DB_HOSTNAME")
db_username = vault.get("DB_USERNAME")
db_password = vault.get("DB_PASSWORD")

Get values from environment variables (Local/Development)

from awsvault import Vault

vault = Vault(None)
email_user = vault.get("EMAIL_USER")

How we usually use it

import os
from awsvault import Vault

# In dev, the PROJECT_SECRETS is None and all secrets are set in the environment variables

# In testing, the PROJECT_SECRETS is mysecret/testing
# In prod, the PROJECT_SECRETS is mysecret/prod

PROJECT_SECRETS = os.environ['PROJECT_SECRETS']

# Then
vault = Vault(PROJECT_SECRETS)

my_secret = vault.get("MY_SECRET")

It's also possible to override the default os.environ fall back to a dict or something callable

OVERRIDE = {
    'EMAIL_USER': 'bart.simpsons@example.com'
}

vault = Vault("myproject/email_secrets", look_first=OVERRIDE)
email_user = vault.get('EMAIL_USER')
assert email_user == 'bart.simpsons@example.com'

def my_super_special_get_config_fn(name):
    if name == 'FRUIT':
        return 'avocado'


vault = Vault("myproject/email_secrets", look_first=my_super_special_get_config_fn)
email_user = vault.get('EMAIL_USER')
fruit = vault.get('FRUIT')

assert fruit == 'avocado'

check the tests out for more usage examples

Contributing

pip install requirements-dev.txt
tox