HVAC

HashiCorp Vault API client for Python 2/3

Tested against Vault v0.1.2 and HEAD. Requires v0.1.2 or later.

Getting started

Installation

pip install hvac

or

pip install "hvac[parser]"

if you would like to be able to return parsed HCL data as a Python dict for methods that support it.

Initialize the client

import os

import hvac

# Using plaintext
client = hvac.Client()
client = hvac.Client(url='http://localhost:8200')
client = hvac.Client(url='http://localhost:8200', token=os.environ['VAULT_TOKEN'])

# Using TLS
client = hvac.Client(url='https://localhost:8200')

# Using TLS with client-side certificate authentication
client = hvac.Client(url='https://localhost:8200',
                     cert=('path/to/cert.pem', 'path/to/key.pem'))

Read and write to secret backends

client.write('secret/foo', baz='bar', lease='1h')

print(client.read('secret/foo'))

client.delete('secret/foo')

Authenticate to different auth backends

# Token
client.token = 'MY_TOKEN'
assert client.is_authenticated() # => True

# App ID
client.auth_app_id('MY_APP_ID', 'MY_USER_ID')

# App Role
client.auth_approle('MY_ROLE_ID', 'MY_SECRET_ID')

# GitHub
client.auth_github('MY_GITHUB_TOKEN')

# LDAP, Username & Password
client.auth_ldap('MY_USERNAME', 'MY_PASSWORD')
client.auth_userpass('MY_USERNAME', 'MY_PASSWORD')

# TLS
client = Client(cert=('path/to/cert.pem', 'path/to/key.pem'))
client.auth_tls()

# Non-default mount point (available on all auth types)
client.auth_userpass('MY_USERNAME', 'MY_PASSWORD', mount_point='CUSTOM_MOUNT_POINT')

# Authenticating without changing to new token (available on all auth types)
result = client.auth_github('MY_GITHUB_TOKEN', use_token=False)
print(result['auth']['client_token']) # => u'NEW_TOKEN'

# Custom or unsupported auth type
params = {
    'username': 'MY_USERNAME',
    'password': 'MY_PASSWORD',
    'custom_param': 'MY_CUSTOM_PARAM',
}

result = client.auth('/v1/auth/CUSTOM_AUTH/login', json=params)

# Logout
client.logout()

Manage tokens

token = client.create_token(policies=['root'], lease='1h')

current_token = client.lookup_token()
some_other_token = client.lookup_token('xxx')

client.revoke_token('xxx')
client.revoke_token('yyy', orphan=True)

client.revoke_token_prefix('zzz')

client.renew_token('aaa')

Managing tokens using accessors

token = client.create_token(policies=['root'], lease='1h')
token_accessor = token['auth']['accessor']

same_token = client.lookup_token(token_accessor, accessor=True)
client.revoke_token(token_accessor, accessor=True)

Wrapping/unwrapping a token

wrap = client.create_token(policies=['root'], lease='1h', wrap_ttl='1m')
result = self.client.unwrap(wrap['wrap_info']['token'])

Manipulate auth backends

backends = client.list_auth_backends()

client.enable_auth_backend('userpass', mount_point='customuserpass')
client.disable_auth_backend('github')

Manipulate secret backends

backends = client.list_secret_backends()

client.enable_secret_backend('aws', mount_point='aws-us-east-1')
client.disable_secret_backend('mysql')

client.tune_secret_backend('generic', mount_point='test', default_lease_ttl='3600s', max_lease_ttl='8600s')
client.get_secret_backend_tuning('generic', mount_point='test')

client.remount_secret_backend('aws-us-east-1', 'aws-east')

Manipulate policies

policies = client.list_policies() # => ['root']

policy = """
path "sys" {
  policy = "deny"
}

path "secret" {
  policy = "write"
}

path "secret/foo" {
  policy = "read"
}
"""

client.set_policy('myapp', policy)

client.delete_policy('oldthing')

policy = client.get_policy('mypolicy')

# Requires pyhcl to automatically parse HCL into a Python dictionary
policy = client.get_policy('mypolicy', parse=True)

Manipulate audit backends

backends = client.list_audit_backends()

options = {
    'path': '/tmp/vault.log',
    'log_raw': True,
}

client.enable_audit_backend('file', options=options, name='somefile')
client.disable_audit_backend('oldfile')

Initialize and seal/unseal

print(client.is_initialized()) # => False

shares = 5
threshold = 3

result = client.initialize(shares, threshold)

root_token = result['root_token']
keys = result['keys']

print(client.is_initialized()) # => True

print(client.is_sealed()) # => True

# unseal with individual keys
client.unseal(keys[0])
client.unseal(keys[1])
client.unseal(keys[2])

# unseal with multiple keys until threshold met
client.unseal_multi(keys)

print(client.is_sealed()) # => False

client.seal()

print(client.is_sealed()) # => True

Testing

Integration tests will automatically start a Vault server in the background. Just make sure the latest vault binary is available in your PATH.

1. Install Vault
2. Install Tox

Contributing

Feel free to open pull requests with additional features or improvements!