Chumper / poor-mans-vault-environment

Replaces vault paths in the enviroment with vault secrets and delegates to the original process

Poor mans vault environment aka "PMVE"

At my company we are using a multitenant kubernetes cluster and are storing our secrets in Vault.

When I was looking at solutions on how to inject Vault secrets into pods I found the solution done in the Banzai Cloud: https://banzaicloud.com/blog/inject-secrets-into-pods-vault-revisited/

Unfortunately this requires a mutating admission webhook which is not possible when you only have a namespace on a kubernetes cluster and no cluster admin rights.

I therefore decided to implement a poor mans solution for this problem.

Usage

pmve is intended to be used as process executor for the original process.
pmve will simply look for any environment variable starting with vault: and replaces the variable with the content of the secret.

E.g. TEST=vault:/secret/my-secret#password will be replaced to TEST=my-secret-password assuming that in vault there is a secret at the given path.

pmve will then replace itself with the process given in the args.

Quick start

Usage of pvme:
  -keep-secrets
        True if Vault secrets should not be deleted in the environment
  -vault-addr string
        The Vault address (default "http://localhost:8200")
  -vault-role-id string
        The role ID of the Vault approle
  -vault-secret-id string
        The secret ID of the Vault approle

Example: