hvac

HashiCorp Vault API client for Python 2.7/3.x

Tested against the latest release, HEAD ref, and 3 previous major versions (counting back from the latest release) of Vault. Currently supports Vault v0.9.6 or later.

Documentation

Documentation for this module is hosted on readthedocs.io.

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'))

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

Read and write to secret backends

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

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

client.delete('secret/foo')

Authenticate using token auth backend

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