Dynamic secrets for Alibaba Cloud.
This is a backend plugin to be used with Hashicorp Vault.
This plugin generates unique, ephemeral API keys and STS credentials.
Please note: We take Vault’s security and our users’ trust very seriously.
If you believe you have found a security issue in Vault or with this plugin,
please responsibly disclose by
contacting us at security@hashicorp.com.
This is a Vault plugin
and is meant to work with Vault. This guide assumes you have already installed Vault
and have a basic understanding of how Vault works. Otherwise, first read this guide on
how to get started with Vault.
If you are using Vault 11.0.1 or above, this plugin is packaged with Vault
and by default can be enabled by running:
$ vault secrets enable alicloudSuccess! Enabled the alicloud secrets engine at: alicloud/
If you are testing this plugin in an earlier version of Vault or
want to develop, see the next section.
If you wish to work on this plugin, you’ll first need Go
installed on your machine (whichever version is required by Vault).
Make sure Go is properly installed, including setting up a GOPATH.
Clone this repository:
mkdir $GOPATH/src/github.com/hashicorp/vault-plugin-secrets-alicloud`cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/hashicorp/git clone https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-plugin-secrets-alicloud.git
(or use go get github.com/hashicorp/vault-plugin-secrets-alicloud ).
You can then download any required build tools by bootstrapping your environment:
$ make bootstrap
To compile a development version of this plugin, run make or make dev.
This will put the plugin binary in the bin and $GOPATH/bin folders. dev
mode will only generate the binary for your platform and is faster:
$ make$ make dev
Put the plugin binary into a location of your choice. This directory
will be specified as the plugin_directory
in the Vault config used to start the server.
plugin_directory = "path/to/plugin/directory"
Start a Vault server with this config file:
$ vault server -config=path/to/config.json ...
Once the server is started, register the plugin in the Vault server’s plugin catalog:
$ vault plugin register \-sha256="$(shasum -a 256 path/to/plugin/directory/vault-plugin-secrets-alicloud | cut -d " " -f1)" \-command="vault-plugin-secrets-alicloud" \secret \alicloudsecrets
Any name can be substituted for the plugin name “alicloudsecrets”. This
name will be referenced in the next step, where we enable the secrets
plugin backend using the AliCloud secrets plugin:
$ vault secrets enable --plugin-name='alicloudsecrets' --path="alicloud" plugin
This plugin has both integration tests and acceptance tests.
The integration tests fire API calls at a local test server that returns expected
responses rather than firing real API calls. They are executed by the following:
$ make test
The acceptance tests fire real API calls, and are located in acceptance_test.go.
These should be run once as a final step before placing a PR. The following environment
variables will need to be set for the acceptance tests to run:
VAULT_ACC=1VAULT_SECRETS_ACC_TEST_ROLE_ARNVAULT_SECRETS_ACC_TEST_ACCESS_KEY_IDVAULT_SECRETS_ACC_TEST_SECRET_KEYWarning: The acceptance tests create/destroy/modify real resources,
which may incur real costs in some cases. In the presence of a bug,
it is technically possible that broken backends could leave dangling
data behind. Therefore, please run the acceptance tests at your own risk.
At the very least, we recommend running them in their own private
account for whatever backend you’re testing.
To run the acceptance tests, after exporting the necessary environment variables,
execute the following from the home directory:
$ make testacc
Or to execute only the acceptance tests:
./scripts/run_acceptance.sh