infisical/docs/integrations/platforms/ansible.mdx

---
title: "Ansible"
description: "Learn how to use Infisical for secret management in Ansible."
---

You can find the Infisical Ansible collection on [Ansible Galaxy](https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/infisical/vault/).


This Ansible Infisical collection includes a variety of Ansible content to help automate the management of Infisical services. This collection is maintained by the Infisical team.


## Ansible version compatibility
Tested with the Ansible Core >= 2.12.0 versions, and the current development version of Ansible. Ansible Core versions prior to 2.12.0 have not been tested.

## Python version compatibility
This collection depends on the Infisical SDK for Python.

Requires Python 3.7 or greater.

## Installing this collection
You can install the Infisical collection with the Ansible Galaxy CLI:

```bash 
$ ansible-galaxy collection install infisical.vault
```

The python module dependencies are not installed by ansible-galaxy. They can be manually installed using pip:
  
```bash
$ pip install infisicalsdk
```

## Using this collection

You can either call modules by their Fully Qualified Collection Name (FQCN), such as `infisical.vault.read_secrets`, or you can call modules by their short name if you list the `infisical.vault` collection in the playbook's collections keyword:

### Authentication

The Infisical Ansible Collection supports [Universal Auth](/documentation/platform/identities/universal-auth), [OIDC Auth](/documentation/platform/identities/oidc-auth/general), and [Token Auth](/documentation/platform/identities/token-auth) for authenticating against Infisical.


<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Universal Auth">
    Using Universal Auth for authentication is the most straight-forward way to get started with using the Ansible collection. 

    To use Universal Auth, you need to provide the Client ID and Client Secret of your Infisical Machine Identity.

    ```yaml
    lookup('infisical.vault.read_secrets', auth_method="universal-auth", universal_auth_client_id='<client-id>', universal_auth_client_secret='<client-secret>' ...rest)
    ```

    You can also provide the `auth_method`, `universal_auth_client_id`, and `universal_auth_client_secret` parameters through environment variables:

    | Parameter Name                 | Environment Variable Name                |
    | ------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------- |
    | `auth_method`                  | `INFISICAL_AUTH_METHOD`                  |
    | `universal_auth_client_id`     | `INFISICAL_UNIVERSAL_AUTH_CLIENT_ID`     |
    | `universal_auth_client_secret` | `INFISICAL_UNIVERSAL_AUTH_CLIENT_SECRET` |
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="OIDC Auth">
    To use OIDC Auth, you'll need to provide the ID of your machine identity, and the OIDC JWT to be used for authentication.

    <Note>
      Please note that in order to use OIDC Auth, you must have `1.0.10` or newer of the `infisicalsdk` package installed.
    </Note>

    ```yaml
    lookup('infisical.vault.read_secrets', auth_method="oidc-auth", identity_id='<identity-id>', jwt='<oidc-jwt>' ...rest)
    ```
    You can also provide the `auth_method`, `identity_id`, and `jwt` parameters through environment variables:

    | Parameter Name  | Environment Variable Name |
    | --------------- | ------------------------- |
    | auth_method     | `INFISICAL_AUTH_METHOD`   |
    | identity_id     | `INFISICAL_IDENTITY_ID`   |
    | jwt             | `INFISICAL_JWT`           |

  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Token Auth">
    Token Auth is the simplest authentication method that allows you to authenticate directly with an access token. This can be either a [Machine Identity Token Auth](/documentation/platform/identities/token-auth) token or a User JWT token.

    <Note>
      Please note that in order to use Token Auth, you must have `1.1.4` or newer of the `infisicalsdk` package installed.
    </Note>

    ```yaml
    lookup('infisical.vault.read_secrets', auth_method="token_auth", token='<your-token>' ...rest)
    ```

    You can also provide the `auth_method` and `token` parameters through environment variables:

    | Parameter Name | Environment Variable Name |
    | -------------- | ------------------------- |
    | auth_method    | `INFISICAL_AUTH_METHOD`   |
    | token          | `INFISICAL_TOKEN`         |

  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

### Examples

```yaml
---
vars:
  read_all_secrets_within_scope: "{{ lookup('infisical.vault.read_secrets', universal_auth_client_id='<>', universal_auth_client_secret='<>', project_id='<>', path='/', env_slug='dev', url='https://spotify.infisical.com') }}"
  # [{ "key": "HOST", "value": "google.com" }, { "key": "SMTP", "value": "gmail.smtp.edu" }]


  read_all_secrets_as_dict: "{{ lookup('infisical.vault.read_secrets', as_dict=True, universal_auth_client_id='<>', universal_auth_client_secret='<>', project_id='<>', path='/', env_slug='dev', url='https://spotify.infisical.com') }}"
  # { "SECRET_KEY_1": "secret-value-1", "SECRET_KEY_2": "secret-value-2" } -> Can be accessed as secrets.SECRET_KEY_1


  read_secret_by_name_within_scope: "{{ lookup('infisical.vault.read_secrets', universal_auth_client_id='<>', universal_auth_client_secret='<>', project_id='<>', path='/', env_slug='dev', secret_name='HOST', url='https://spotify.infisical.com') }}"
  # { "key": "HOST", "value": "google.com" }
```


## Troubleshoot 

<Accordion title="I'm getting a error related to objc[72832]: +[__NSCFConstantString initialize]">
  If you get this Python error when you running the lookup plugin:-

  ```
  objc[72832]: +[__NSCFConstantString initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called. We cannot safely call it or ignore it in the fork() child process. Crashing instead. Set a breakpoint on objc_initializeAfterForkError to debug.
  Fatal Python error: Aborted
  ```

  You will need to add this to your shell environment or ansible wrapper script:-

  ```
  export OBJC_DISABLE_INITIALIZE_FORK_SAFETY=YES
  ```
</Accordion>