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1. Terraform integration

1.1. About the Terraform integration

Learn about the supported integrations between IBM HashiCorp products and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, the integration workflows, and migration paths to help determine the best options for your environment.

1.1.1. Introduction

Many organizations find themselves using both Ansible Automation Platform and Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform, recognizing that these can work in harmony to create an improved experience for developers and operations teams. While Terraform Enterprise and HCP Terraform excel at Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for provisioning and de-provisioning cloud resources, Ansible Automation Platform is a versatile, all-purpose automation solution ideal for configuration management, application deployment, and orchestrating complex IT workflows across diverse domains.

This integration directly addresses common challenges such as managing disparate automation tools, ensuring consistent configuration across hybrid cloud environments and accelerating deployment cycles. By bringing together Terraform’s declarative approach to infrastructure provisioning with Ansible Automation Platform’s procedural approach to configuration and orchestration, users can achieve:

Optimized costs: Reduce cloud waste, minimize manual processes, and combat tool sprawl. This integration can lead to a significant reduction in infrastructure costs and a high return on investment.
Reduced risk: Lower the risk of breaches, enforce policies, and significantly decrease unplanned downtime. The ability to review Terraform plan output before applying it in a workflow, with approval steps, enhances security and compliance.
Faster time to value: Boost developer productivity and deploy new compute resources more rapidly, leading to a faster time to market. This is achieved through unified lifecycle management and automation for Day 0 (provisioning), Day 1 (configuration), and Day 2 (ongoing management) operations.

By enabling direct calls between Ansible Automation Platform and Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform, organizations can unlock time to value by creating combined workflows, reduce risk through enhanced product integrations, and enhance Infrastructure-as-Code with Ansible Automation Platform content and practices. This allows for unified lifecycle management, enabling tasks from initial provisioning and configuration to ongoing health checks, incident response, patching, and infrastructure optimization.

1.1.2. Integration workflows

Depending on your existing setup, you can integrate these products from Ansible Automation Platform or from Terraform. Migration paths are provided for community users and for migrating from the cloud.terraform collection to hashicorp.terraform.

Ansible-initiated workflow

Ansible automation hub collections allow Ansible Automation Platform users to leverage the Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform provisioning capabilities.

hashicorp.terraform collection

This collection provides API integration between Ansible Automation Platform and Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform. This solution works natively with Ansible Automation Platform and reduces setup complexity because it doesn’t require a binary installation and it includes a default execution environment.

cloud.terraform collection

This collection provides CLI integration between Ansible Automation Platform and Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform. To use this collection, you must install a binary and create an execution environment.

Although this collection is supported, we recommend using the hashicorp.terraform collection instead to take advantage of its API capabilities.

Migration workflows

Community edition users can migrate to Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform, and then integrate the Ansible Automation Platform capabilities using the cloud.terraform (CLI) collection. However, we recommend using the hashicorp.terraform (API) collection instead.

If you are already using the cloud.terraform collection, you can migrate to hashicorp.terraform.

Terraform-initiated workflow

For existing Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform users, Terraform can directly call Ansible Automation Platform at the end of provisioning for a more seamless and secure workflow. This enables Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform users to enhance their immutable infrastructure automation with Ansible Automation Platform Day 2 automation capabilities and manage infrastructure updates and lifecycle events.

1.2. Integrating from Ansible Automation Platform

As an administrator, you configure the integration from Ansible Automation Platform user interface. Use the procedures related to the collection you have installed.

1.2.1. Authenticating to hashicorp.terraform

After installing or migrating to hashicorp.terraform, administrators configure a custom credential type in the Ansible Automation Platform user interface to authenticate to Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform. Then users must create credentials (based on the credential type) to use with job templates in Ansible Automation Platform.

Creating a custom credential type

Administrators set up a custom credential type to facilitate authentication between Ansible Automation Platform and Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform. This preparation helps ensure that credentials are provided automatically to the execution environment, eliminating the need to update playbooks manually.

Additionally, you can configure a custom credential for Vault to leverage the advanced features of Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform and Vault with Ansible Automation Platform.

Prerequisites

You must have a Terraform API token.
Install the certified hashicorp.terraform collection from automation hub. (You need an Ansible subscription to access and download collections on automation hub.)

Procedure

Log in to Ansible Automation Platform.
From the navigation panel, select Automation Execution › Infrastructure › Credential Types.
Click Create a credential type. The Create Credential Type page opens and displays the Details tab.
For the Credential Type, enter a name.
In the Input configuration field, enter the following parameters and values:
```
fields:
  - id: token
    type: string
    label: token
    secret: true
```
In the Injector configuration field, enter the TF token:
```
env:
  TF_TOKEN:  ‘{{ token }}’
```
To save your configuration, click Create Credential Type again. The new credential type is created.

Next step

Creating a credential

Users must create a credential to use with job templates in Ansible Automation Platform.

Prerequisite

You must have a Terraform API token.
Your administrator has created a custom credential type.

Procedure

Log in to Ansible Automation Platform.
From the navigation panel, select Automation Execution › Infrastructure › Credentials, and then select Create credential.
From the Credential type list, select the credential type. The fields that display depend on the credential type.
In the Token field, enter the Terraform API token.
(Optional) Edit the Description field and select the TF organization from the Organization list.
Click Save credential. You are ready to use the credential in a job template.

1.2.2. Integrating with cloud.terraform

When you integrate with cloud.terraform, you must create a credential, build an execution environment, and launch a job template in Ansible Automation Platform.

Creating a credential

You can set up credentials directly from the Ansible Automation Platform user interface. The credentials are provided to the execution environment and Ansible Automation Platform reads them from there. This eliminates the need to manually update each playbook.

Prerequisites

You must have a Terraform API token.
Install the certified cloud.terraform collection from automation hub. (You need an Ansible subscription to access and download collections on automation hub.)

Procedure

Log in to Ansible Automation Platform.
From the navigation panel, select Automation Execution › Infrastructure › Credential Types.
Click Create a credential type. The Create Credential Type page opens and displays the Details tab.
For the Credential Type, enter a name.
In the Input configuration field, enter the following YAML parameter and values:
```
fields:
   - id: token
     type: string
     label: token
     secret: true
```
In the Injector configuration field, enter the environment host name and TF token.
- For Terraform Enterprise, the hostname is the location where you have deployed TFE:
  env: TF_TOKEN_<hostname>: ‘{{ token }}’
- For HCP Terraform, use:
  env: TF_TOKEN_app_terraform_io: ‘{{ token }}’
To save your configuration, click Create Credential Type again. The new credential type is created.
To create an instance of your new credential type, select Automation Execution › Infrastructure › Credentials page, and select Create credential.
From the Credential type, select the name of the credential type you created earlier.
In the Token field, enter the Terraform API token.
(Optional) Edit the Description and select the TF organization from the Organization list.
Click Save credential.

Additional resources

Terraform CLI configuration

Building an execution environment in Ansible Automation Platform

You must build an execution environment using the automation controller so that Ansible Automation Platform can provide the credentials necessary for using its automation features.

Prerequisites

You need a pre-existing execution environment with the latest version of cloud.terraform collection before you can create it using an automation controller. You cannot use the default execution environment provided by Ansible Automation Platform because the default environment does not include the terraform CLI binary.

Note

If you have migrated from Terraform Community Edition, you can continue to use your existing execution environment and update it to the latest version of cloud.terraform.
Install the terraform CLI binary in your pre-existing execution environment. See Additional resources below for a link to the binary.

Procedure

From the navigation panel, select Automation Execution › Infrastructure › Execution Environments.
Click Create execution environment.
For Name, enter a name for your Ansible Automation Platform execution environment.
For Image, enter the repository link to the image for your pre-existing execution environment.
Click Create execution environment. Your newly added execution environment is ready to be used in a job template.

Additional resources

Creating and launching a job template

Create and launch a job template to complete the integration and use the automation features in Ansible Automation Platform.

Procedure

From the navigation panel, select Automation Execution › Templates.
Select Create template > Create Job Template.
From the Execution Environment list, select the environment you created.
From the Credentials list, select the credentials instance you created previously. If you do not see the credentials, select Browse to see more options in the list.
Enter any additional information for the required fields.
Click Create job template.
Click Launch template.
To launch the job, click Next and Finish. The job output shows that the job has run.

Verification

To see that the job has run successfully from the Terraform user interface, select Workspaces > Ansible-Content-Integration > Run. The Run list shows the state of the Triggered via CLI job. You can see it go from the Queued to the Plan Finished state.

Additional resources

1.3. Migrating from other versions

Migrate from earlier collections or community editions to use the most advanced features of the HashiCorp and Ansible Automation Platform integrations.

1.3.1. Migrating from `cloud.terraform` to `hashicorp.terraform`

If you are using the existing cloud.terraform (CLI-based) collection, you can migrate your existing playbooks to the hashicorp.terraform (API-based) collection. The API solution works natively with Ansible Automation Platform and reduces setup complexity. The main modules for hashicorp.terraform that you must configure are hashicorp.terraform.configuration_version and hashicorp.terraform.run.

Configuring the `hashicorp.terraform.configuration_version` module

To migrate to the hashicorp.terraform collection, you must configure the hashicorp.terraform.configuration_version module. This module manages configuration versions in Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform.

Prerequisites

Install the Ansible Automation Platform certified hashicorp.terraform collection.
Verify that a valid organization and workspace are correctly set up in Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform.

Procedure

Replicate your automation tasks from the cloud.terraform modules.

Example

- name: Create configuration version with auto_queue_runs to false
  hashicorp.terraform.configuration_version:
   workspace_id: ws-1234
   configuration_files_path: "/usr/home/tf"
   auto_queue_runs: false
   tf_validate_certs: true
   poll_interval: 3
   poll_timeout: 15
   state: present

Configure the following required parameters:
- workspace_id or workspace + organization: The workspace ID or the workspace name and organization where the configuration version will be created and the file will be uploaded (for state: present).
- configuration_files_path: The path where the required Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform files will be uploaded to create a configuration version (for state: present). The module accepts two file types for configuration_files_path:
  - Directory: Any folder containing Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform files. The module auto-creates the .tar.gz file from all contents recursively.
  - .tar.gz Archive: Pre-compressed gzip tarball. The module validates TAR format and gzip compression.
- configuration_version_id: The configuration version ID that will be archived (state: archived). This action deletes the associated uploaded .tar.gz file. Note the following:
  - Only versions that were created using the API or CLI that are uploaded, have no active runs, and are not the current version for any workspace are archived.
  - When the configuration_version_id is unspecified, Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform picks the latest approved configuration_version_id in the workspace.
- auto_queue_runs: Determines if Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform automatically starts a run after the configuration upload (true by default) or requires manual initiation (false).
Set additional optional parameters as needed.

Additional resources

Migration examples for hashicorp.terraform modules

Configuring the `hashicorp.terraform.run` module

The hashicorp.terraform.run module lets you manage Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform runs using create, apply, cancel, discard operations. You can trigger plans or apply operations on specified workspaces with customizable settings.

Prerequisites

Ensure that a valid Terraform API token is properly configured to authenticate with your Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform environment.
Verify that a valid organization and workspace are correctly set up in Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform.

Procedure

Create a run module.

Example

- name: Create a destroy run with auto_apply
  hashicorp.terraform.run:
  workspace_id: ws-1234
  run_message: "destroy vpc"
  state: "present"
  tf_token: <your token>
  is_destroy: true
  auto_apply: true
  target_addrs:
    - "aws_vpc.vpc1"
    - "aws_vpc.vpc2"
  poll: true
  poll_interval: 10
  poll_timeout: 30

Configure the following required parameters:
- workspace_id or workspace + organization: The workspace ID or the workspace name and organization where the configuration version will be created and the file will be uploaded (for state: present).
- run_id: The unique identifier of the run to apply, cancel, or discard operations.
- tf_token: The Terraform API authentication token. If this value is not set, the environment variable TF_TOKEN environment variables are used.
(Optional) Configure the built-in polling options that determine the wait period for Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform operations to complete:
- poll: true: (Default) Checks the run status every poll_interval seconds (default: 5) until completion or poll_timeout (default: 25s) is reached, returning the final status.
- poll: false: Returns immediately after initiating the run without waiting.
Set additional optional parameters as needed.

Additional resources

Migration examples for hashicorp.terraform modules

Migration examples for `hashicorp.terraform` modules

These before and after examples help users understand how the modules can be configured in a real world environment.

Example 1: Plan Only

Before (cloud.terraform.terraform):

- name: Create a plan file using check mode
  cloud.terraform.terraform:
   force_init: true
   project_path: "/usr/home/tf"
   plan_file: "/usr/home/tf/terraform.tfplan"
   state: present
   check_mode: true
   check_destroy: true
   variables:
     environment: prod

After (hashicorp.terraform.*):

The configuration_version module:

- name: Create configuration version with auto_queue_runs to false
  hashicorp.terraform.configuration_version:
   workspace_id: ws-1234
   configuration_files_path: "usr/home/tf_files"
   auto_queue_runs: false
   tf_validate_certs: true
   poll_interval: 5
   poll_timeout: 10
   state: present

The plan_only run with the run module:

- name: Create a plan only run with variables
  hashicorp.terraform.run:
   workspace_id: ws-1234
   run_message: "plan-only vpc creation"
   poll: false
   state: "present"
   tf_token: "{{ tfc_token }}"
   plan_only: true
   variables:
    - key: "env"
      value: "production"

Example 2: Plan and apply

Before (cloud.terraform.terraform):

Generate the plan:

- name: Plan and Apply Workflow - Step 1 - Generate Plan
  cloud.terraform.terraform:
   force_init: true
   project_path: "/usr/home/tf"
   plan_file: "/usr/home/tf/workflow.tfplan"
   state: present
   check_mode: true
   variables:
     environment: prod

Apply the plan:

- name: Plan and Apply Workflow - Step 2 - Apply Plan
  cloud.terraform.terraform:
   project_path:  "/usr/home/tf"
   plan_file: "/usr/home/tf/workflow.tfplan"
   state: present

After (hashicorp.terraform.run):

The configuration_version module:

- name: Create configuration version with auto_queue_runs to false
  hashicorp.terraform.configuration_version:
   workspace_id: ws-1234
   configuration_files_path: "usr/home/tf_files"
   auto_queue_runs: false
   tf_validate_certs: true
   poll_interval: 5
   poll_timeout: 10
   state: present

The run module with two options for plan and apply workflow:

Option 1: Uses the auto_apply parameter to handle both the plan and apply workflows:

- name: Create a run with auto_apply
  hashicorp.terraform.run:
   workspace_id: ws-1234
   run_message: "destroy vpc"
   state: "present"
   tf_token: "{{ tfc_token }}"
   auto_apply: true
   poll: true
   poll_interval: 10
   poll_timeout: 30

Option 2: Uses two sub-steps to create a save_plan run and then apply it:

Create the plan:

- name: Create a save plan run
  hashicorp.terraform.run:
   workspace_id: ws-1234
   run_message: "save plan vpc creation"
   state: "present"
   tf_token: "{{ tfc_token }}"
   poll: true
   poll_interval: 10
   poll_timeout: 30
   save_plan: true

Apply the plan. You get the run_id from the output of the run module task:

- name: Apply the save plan run
  hashicorp.terraform.run:
   run_id: run-1234
   state: "applied"
   tf_token: "{{ tfc_token }}"
   poll: true
   poll_interval: 10
   poll_timeout: 30

1.3.2. Migrating from Terraform Community Edition

If you want to use Ansible Automation Platform with Terraform Enterprise (TFE) or HCP Terraform and you are currently using Terraform Community Edition (TCE), you must:

Migrate to TFE or HCP Terraform.
Update Ansible Automation Platform configurations to work with TFE or HCP Terraform.

Migrating from the community edition

When you migrate from TCE to TFE or HCP Terraform, you are not migrating the collection itself. Instead, you are adapting your existing TCE usage to work with TFE or HCP Terraform. After you migrate, you must update the Ansible Automation Platform credentials, execution environment, and job templates.

Note	The `cloud.terraform` collection only supports the CLI-driven workflow in HCP Terraform.

Prerequisites

Use the latest supported version of Terraform (1.11 or higher).
Follow the tf-migrate CLI instructions under Additional resources below.
Ensure that the HCP Terraform or TFE workspace is not set to automatically apply plans.

Procedure

To prevent errors when running playbooks against TFE or HCP Terraform, do the following actions before running a playbook:
1. Confirm that the Terraform version in the execution environment is the same as the version stated in TFE or HCP Terraform.
2. Perform an initialization in TFE or HCP Terraform:
  terraform init
3. If you have a local state file in your execution environment, delete the local state file.
4. Get a token from HCP Terraform or Terraform Enterprise, which you will use to create the credential in a later step. Ensure the token has the necessary permissions based on the team or user token to execute the desired capabilities in the playbook.
5. Remove the backend config and files from your playbook definition.
6. Add the workspace within the default setting in your TF config or an environment variable if you want to define the workspace outside updating the playbook itself.
  
  Note
  
  You can add the workspace to your playbook to scale your workspace utilization.
From the Ansible Automation Platform user interface:
(Optional) After the migration is completed and verified, you can run the additional modules and plugins from the collection in your execution environment:

Additional resources

tf-migrate CLI instructions

1.4. Integrating from Terraform

If you have already provisioned your environment from Terraform Enterprise, you can use the Terraform official provider for Ansible Automation Platform to leverage Ansible Automation Platform automation capabilities for Day 2 tasks and manage infrastructure updates and lifecycle events. For more information about integrating from Terraform Enterprise, see the Terraform documentation and the Ansible Automation Platform official provider in the Terraform registry.

2. Vault integration

2.1. About the Vault integration

The integration of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and IBM HashiCorp Vault provides fully automated Key/Value V2 (KV2) secret lifecycle management for Vault.

2.1.1. Introduction

Vault lets you centrally store and manage secrets securely. The Ansible Automation Platform certified hashicorp.vault collection provides fully automated Key/Value V2 (KV2) secret lifecycle management for Vault. You can create, update, and delete secrets through playbooks.

Existing community.hashi_vault users: The hashicorp.vault solution is intended to replace unsupported community.hashi_vault collection. Use the migration path to keep your existing playbooks. For more information about migrating, see Migrating from community.hashi_vault.
New Vault users: The hashicorp.vault collection is included in the supported execution environment from automation hub.

Note	Although the `hashicorp.vault` and `hashi.terraform` collections work independently of each other and are designed for different tasks, you can use them together in advanced workflows.

2.2. Authenticating to `hashicorp.vault`

After you install or migrate to the hashicorp.vault collection, authentication is configured in the Ansible Automation Platform user interface:

An administrator creates a custom credential type to authenticate to Vault.
Users create credentials (based on the credential type) to use with job templates in Ansible Automation Platform.

2.2.1. Authentication architecture

The hashicorp.vault collection manages authentication through environment variables and client initialization. This approach enhances security by preventing sensitive credentials from being passed directly as module parameters within playbook tasks. Instead, hashicorp.vault injects credentials into job templates with environment variables, so you get simpler, cleaner task definitions while ensuring that authentication details remain secure.

The following authentication types are supported:

appRole authentication: Use either one of the following methods when using appRole authentication:
- Set the VAULT_APPROLE_ROLE_ID and VAULT_APPROLE_SECRET_ID environment variables. When you use environment variables, you must also create a custom credential type and credentials that will be passed to the job template.
- Directly pass the role_id and secret_id parameters to the tasks, for example:
  - name: Create a secret with AppRole authentication hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret: url: https://vault.example.com:8200 auth_method: approle role_id: "{{ vault_role_id }}" secret_id: "{{ vault_secret_id }}" path: myapp/config data: api_key: secret-api-key
Token authentication: Set the VAULT_TOKEN environment variable.

Optionally, you can configure parameters for the token. If parameters are not provided, then the module uses environment variables.

2.2.2. Creating a custom credential type

As an admin, you create a secure credential type in Ansible Automation Platform, which is used to authenticate to Vault.

You can configure role-based (appRole) authentication or allow users to directly provide a token.

Prerequisites

Do one of the following:

New users: Install the Ansible Automation Platform certified hashicorp.vault collection from Automation hub.
community.hashi_vault collection users: Migrate from community.hashi_vault. For more information, see Migrating from community.hashi_vault.

Procedure

Log in to Ansible Automation Platform.
From the navigation panel, select Automation Execution › Infrastructure › Credential Types.
Click Create a credential type. The Create Credential Type page opens.
Enter a name and a description in the corresponding fields.

If you want to configure token authentication for individual users:

For Input configuration, enter:

fields:
 - id: vault_token
   type: string
   label: Hashicorp Vault Token
   secret: true

For Injector configuration, enter:

env:
   VAULT_TOKEN: '{{ vault_token }}'

If you want to configure appRole authentication using role_id and secret_id:

For Input configuration, enter:

fields:
  - id: vault_approle_role_id
    type: string
    label: Hashicorp Vault appRole Role ID
    secret: true
  - id: vault_approle_secret_id
    type: string
    label: Hashicorp Vault appRole Secret ID
    secret: true

For Injector configuration, enter:

env:
    VAULT_APPROLE_ROLE_ID: '{{ vault_approle_role_id }}'
    VAULT_APPROLE_SECRET_ID: '{{ vault_approle_secret_id }}'

Click Create credential type.

Next step

Creating a custom credential

Additional resources

Vault API documentation

2.2.3. Creating a custom credential

Vault users must create a custom credential to use with job templates in Ansible Automation Platform.

Prerequisite

Your administrator has created a Vault credential type.

Procedure

Log in to Ansible Automation Platform.
From the navigation panel, select Automation Execution › Infrastructure › Credentials, and then select Create credential.
Enter a name and a description in the corresponding fields.
(Optional) From the Organization list, select an organization.
From the Credential type list, select a Vault credential type. The fields that display depend on the credential type.
Do one of the following:
1. For the token authentication, add your Vault token and edit any fields as needed.
2. For the appRole authentication method, enter the IDs in the appRole Role ID and appRole Secret ID fields. Edit any other fields as needed.
Click Save credential. You are ready to use the credential in a job template.

2.3. Migrating from `community.hashi_vault`

If you are using the community.hashi_vault collection, you can migrate your existing playbooks to the hashicorp.vault collection.

There are two modules for hashicorp.vault that you must configure:

hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret - A unified module for CRUD operations on KV2 secrets.
hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret_get lookup - A lookup plugin for reading KV2 secrets.

In the following procedures, you will replicate the parameters from the community.hashi_vault modules to these required hashicorp.vault modules.

2.3.1. Configuring the `hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret` module

The hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret module performs Create, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations on KV2 secrets through a unified interface.

The corresponding community.hashi_vault modules are:

community.hashi_vault.vault_kv2_write - Write KV2 secrets.
community.hashi_vault.vault_kv2_delete - Delete KV2 secrets.

Prerequisites

Install the Ansible Automation Platform certified hashicorp.vault collection.

Procedure

Replicate your automation tasks from both of the community.hashi_vault modules to the following hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret parameters. The hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret parameters are similar to community.hashi_vault. For examples, see Migration examples for the hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret module.

auth_method:
 description: Authentication method to use
 type: str
 choices: [token, approle]
 default: token
 required: false

cas:
 description: Perform a check-and-set operation.
 type: int
 required: false

data:
 description: KV2 secret data to write.
 type: dict
 required: true

engine_mount_point:
 description: The path where the secret backend is mounted.
 type: str
 default: secret
 required: false
 aliases: [secret_mount_path]

namespace:
 description: Vault namespace where secrets reside.
 type: str
 default: admin
 aliases: [vault_namespace]

path:
 description: Vault KVv2 path to be written to.
 type: str
 required: true
 aliases: [secret_path]

url:
 description: URL of the Vault service
 type: str
 aliases: [vault_address]
 required: true

versions:
 description: One or more versions of the secret to delete.
 type: list of int
 required: false

state:
 description: Desired state of the secret
 type: str
 choices: [present, absent]
 default: present

You must add the state parameter to the hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret module, as shown above. Valid options are:
- present: This is the equivalent of create or update in the community.hashi_vault.vault_kv2 modules.
- absent: This is the equivalent of delete secret in the community.hashi_vault.vault_kv2 modules.

Next step

Configuring the hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret_get lookup plugin.

2.3.2. Configuring the `hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret_get` lookup plugin

The hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret_get lookup plugin module reads KV2 secrets.

The corresponding community.hashi_vault modules are:

community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault: Retrieves secrets from HashiCorp Vault.
community.hashi_vault.vault_kv2_get lookup: Gets secrets from the HashiCorp Vault KV version 2 secret store.

Procedure

Replicate the community.hashi_vault modules to the following hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret_get parameters. For examples, see Migration examples for the hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret_get lookup plugin.

auth_method:
 description: Authentication method to use
 type: str
 choices: [token, approle]
 default: token
 required: false

mount_point:
 description: Vault mount point
 type: str
 required: false
 aliases: [secret_mount_path]

namespace:
 description: Vault namespace where secrets reside.
 type: str
 default: admin
 aliases: [vault_namespace]
secret:
 description: Vault path to the secret being requested in the format path[:field]
 type: str
 required: true
 aliases: [secret_path]

url:
 description: URL of the Vault service
 type: str
 aliases: [vault_address]
 required: true

version:
 description: Specifies the version to return. If not set the latest is returned.
 type: int
 required: false

Use the following guidance to configure the hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret_get parameters:
- auth_method: Maps identically to auth_method in the community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault modules.
- mount_point: Maps to mount_point in the community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault modules. Alias: secret_mount_path.
- namespace: Maps to namespace in the community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault modules. Alias: vault_namespace.
- secret: Maps to secret in the community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault modules.
- url: Maps to url in the community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault modules. Uses the same aliases as vault_address.
- version: Maps identically to version in the community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault modules.

Next step

Creating a credential type

2.3.3. Migration examples for the `hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret` module

The following examples show basic before and after configurations for the hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret module.

Example 1. Example: Basic Secret Write/Create

Before (community.hashi_vault):

- name: Write/create a secret
  community.hashi_vault.vault_kv2_write:
    url: https://vault:8200
    path: hello
    data:
      foo: bar

After (hashicorp.vault):

- name: Write/create a secret
  hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret:
    url: https://vault:8200
    path: hello
    data:
      foo: bar

Example 2. Example 2: Basic Secret Delete

Before (community.hashi_vault):

- name: Delete the latest version of the secret/mysecret secret.
  community.hashi_vault.vault_kv2_delete:
    url: https://vault:8201
    path: secret/mysecret

After (hashicorp.vault):

- name: Delete the latest version of the secret/mysecret secret.
  hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret:
    url: https://vault:8201
    path: secret/mysecret
    state: absent

Example 3. Example 3: Secret Delete - specific version

Before (community.hashi_vault):

- name: Delete versions 1 and 3 of the secret/mysecret secret.
  community.hashi_vault.vault_kv2_delete:
    url: https://vault:8201
    path: secret/mysecret
    versions: [1, 3]

After (hashicorp.vault):

- name: Delete versions 1 and 3 of the secret/mysecret secret.
  hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret:
    url: https://vault:8201
    path: secret/mysecret
    versions: [1, 3]
    state: absent

2.3.4. Migration examples for the `hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret_get` lookup

Example 4. Example: KV2 secret lookup - latest version

Before (community.hashi_vault)

- name: Return latest KV v2 secret from path
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', 'secret=secret/data/hello
  token=my_vault_token
  url=http://myvault_url:8200') }}"

After (hashicorp.vault)

name: Return latest KV v2 secret from path
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret_get', 'secret=secret/data/hello
  url=http://myvault_url:8200') }}"

Getting started with HashiCorp and Ansible Automation Platform

Providing feedback on Red Hat documentation

1. Terraform integration

1.1. About the Terraform integration

1.1.1. Introduction

1.1.2. Integration workflows

Ansible-initiated workflow

Migration workflows

Terraform-initiated workflow

1.2. Integrating from Ansible Automation Platform

1.2.1. Authenticating to hashicorp.terraform

Creating a custom credential type

Creating a credential

1.2.2. Integrating with cloud.terraform

Creating a credential

Building an execution environment in Ansible Automation Platform

Creating and launching a job template

1.3. Migrating from other versions

1.3.1. Migrating from cloud.terraform to hashicorp.terraform

Configuring the hashicorp.terraform.configuration_version module

Configuring the hashicorp.terraform.run module

Migration examples for hashicorp.terraform modules

Example 1: Plan Only

Example 2: Plan and apply

1.3.2. Migrating from Terraform Community Edition

Migrating from the community edition

1.4. Integrating from Terraform

2. Vault integration

2.1. About the Vault integration

2.1.1. Introduction

2.2. Authenticating to hashicorp.vault

2.2.1. Authentication architecture

2.2.2. Creating a custom credential type

2.2.3. Creating a custom credential

2.3. Migrating from community.hashi_vault

2.3.1. Configuring the hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret module

2.3.2. Configuring the hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret_get lookup plugin

2.3.3. Migration examples for the hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret module

2.3.4. Migration examples for the hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret_get lookup

1.3.1. Migrating from `cloud.terraform` to `hashicorp.terraform`

Configuring the `hashicorp.terraform.configuration_version` module

Configuring the `hashicorp.terraform.run` module

Migration examples for `hashicorp.terraform` modules

2.2. Authenticating to `hashicorp.vault`

2.3. Migrating from `community.hashi_vault`

2.3.1. Configuring the `hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret` module

2.3.2. Configuring the `hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret_get` lookup plugin

2.3.3. Migration examples for the `hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret` module

2.3.4. Migration examples for the `hashicorp.vault.kv2_secret_get` lookup