Secrets backend for Pants

This release targets Pants 2.30.0. Install it with pants-backend-secrets==0.6.0 in [GLOBAL].plugins in pants.toml.

Warning This plugin is in development. No stability is guaranteed! Contributions welcome.

This backends implements utilities for handling secrets.

Planned and missing features

Setting and creating secrets via Pants

Targets

`env_secret`

A secret to be read from the environment.

env_secret(
    name="bw_session_key",
    key="BW_SESSION",
)

Argument	Meaning	Default value
`name`	The target name	Same as any other target, which is the directory name
`key`	The environment variable to read.	Required
`decsription`	A description of the target
`tags`	List of tags	`[]`

Goals

`decrypt`

Decrypts and prints a secret.

BW_SESSION="..." pants decrypt //examples/bitwarden:pypi_token
22:29:42.17 [INFO] Completed: Decrypting examples/bitwarden:pypi_token
Secret examples/bitwarden:pypi_token from BitWarden: pypi-...

Metadata

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