Programmatic Ruby access to the Secrets Manager API.

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Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'conjur-api'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install conjur-api

Connecting to Secrets Manager is a two-step process:

• Configuration Instruct the API where to find the Secrets Manager endpoint and how to secure the connection.
• Authentication Provide the API with credentials that it can use to authenticate.

The simplest way to configure the Secrets Manager API is to use the configuration file stored on the machine. If you have configured the machine with Secrets Manager CLI, its default location is ~/.conjurrc.

For custom scenarios, the location of the file can be overridden using the CONJURRC environment variable.

You can load the Secrets Manager configuration file using the following Ruby code:

require 'conjur/cli'
Conjur::Config.load
Conjur::Config.apply

Once Secrets Manager is configured, the connection can be established like this:

conjur = Conjur::Authn.connect nil, noask: true

To authenticate, the API client must provide a login name and api_key. The Conjur::Authn.connect will attempt the following, in order:

1. Look for login in environment variable CONJUR_AUTHN_LOGIN, and api_key in CONJUR_AUTHN_API_KEY
2. Look for credentials on disk. The default credentials file is ~/.netrc. The location of the credentials file can be overridden using the configuration file netrc_path option.
3. Prompt for credentials. This can be disabled using the option noask: true.

It's possible to configure and authenticate the Secrets Manager connection without using any files, and without requiring the conjur-cli gem.

To accomplish this, apply the configuration settings directly to the Conjur::Configuration object.

For example, specify the account and appliance_url (both of which are required) like this:

Conjur.configuration.account = 'my-account'
Conjur.configuration.appliance_url = 'https://conjur.mydomain.com/api'

You can also specify these values using environment variables, which is often a bit more convenient. Environment variables are mapped to configuration variables by prepending CONJUR_ to the all-caps name of the configuration variable. For example, appliance_url is CONJUR_APPLIANCE_URL, account is CONJUR_ACCOUNT.

In either case, you will also need to configure certificate trust. For example:

OpenSSL::SSL::SSLContext::DEFAULT_CERT_STORE.add_file "/etc/conjur-yourorg.pem"

Once Secrets Manager is configured, you can create a new API client by providing a login and api_key:

Conjur::API.new_from_key login, api_key

Note that if you are connecting as a Host, the login should be prefixed with host/. For example: host/myhost.example.com, not just myhost.example.com.

Conjur::Configuration allows optional configuration of the RestClient instance used by Secrets Manager API to communicate with the Secrets Manager server, via the options hash Conjur.configuration.rest_client_options.

The default value for the options hash is:

{
  ssl_cert_store: OpenSSL::SSL::SSLContext::DEFAULT_CERT_STORE
}

For example, here's how you would configure the client to use a proxy and ssl_ca_file (instead of the default ssl_cert_store).

Conjur.configuration.rest_client_options = {
    ssl_ca_file: "ca_certificate.pem",
    proxy: "http://proxy.example.com/"
}

We welcome contributions of all kinds to this repository. For instructions on how to get started and descriptions of our development workflows, please see our contributing guide.

This repository is licensed under Apache License 2.0 - see LICENSE for more details.