README.md

AWS Secrets Manager Loader

Simple go application to load secrets from AWS Secrets Manager and output them to stdout

Build

CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux go build -o aws_sm_loader main.go

Usage

The application expects the env variable AWS_REGION to be set. To filter the secrets you want to retrieve use AWS tags. Set tags as env variables before running the application with prefix SM_TAG_.

To get all secrets tagged with FOO=bar use

export SM_TAG_FOO=bar
./aws_sm_loader

The secrets matching all tags will be printed to stdout in the following format

export FOO=bar
export FOO2=bar2
...

You can the use eval to export the env variables, for example in dumb-init entrypoint

ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/bin/dumb-init", "--"]
CMD ["bash", "-c", "eval $(./aws_sm_loader) && exec printenv"]

Writing binary secrets to file

If secret contains binary data it will be written to file. Value after last / from secret name will be used as filename. Path for files can be set using SM_SECRETS_PATH env variable. Default is current directory.

Ignoring secrets

If tag aws_sm_loader_ignore with value true is set for a secret, it won't be exported into the env.

File permissions for binary secrets

File permissions for secrets that will be outputted into files can be set using SM_SECRETS_FILEMODE env variable.

Values in octal permissions notation with leading zero is expected.

Default value is read only: 0440.