Vault
Redis database secrets engine
Redis is one of the supported plugins for the database secrets engine. This plugin generates database credentials dynamically based on configured roles for the Redis database.
See the database secrets engine docs for more information about setting up the database secrets engine.
Capabilities
Plugin Name | Root Credential Rotation | Dynamic Roles | Static Roles | Username Customization |
---|---|---|---|---|
redis-database-plugin | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Setup
Enable the database secrets engine if it is not already enabled:
$ vault secrets enable database Success! Enabled the database secrets engine at: database/
By default, the secrets engine will enable at the name of the engine. To enable the secrets engine at a different path, use the
-path
argument.Configure Vault with the proper plugin and connection configuration:
$ vault write database/config/my-redis-database \ plugin_name="redis-database-plugin" \ host="localhost" \ port=6379 \ tls=true \ ca_cert="$CACERT" \ username="user" \ password="pass" \ allowed_roles="my-*-role"
You should consider rotating the admin password. Note that if you do, the new password will never be made available through Vault, so you should create a Vault-specific database admin user for this.
vault write -force database/rotate-root/my-redis-database
Usage
After the secrets engine is configured, write dynamic and static roles to Vault to enable generating credentials.
Dynamic roles
Configure a dynamic role that maps a name in Vault to a JSON string containing the Redis ACL rules, which are either documented here or in the output of the
ACL CAT
Redis command.$ vault write database/roles/my-dynamic-role \ db_name="my-redis-database" \ creation_statements='["+@admin"]' \ default_ttl="5m" \ max_ttl="1h" Success! Data written to: database/roles/my-dynamic-role
Note that if a creation_statement is not provided the user account will default to a read only user,
'["~*", "+@read"]'
that can read any key.Generate a new set of credentials by reading from the
/creds
endpoint with the name of the role:$ vault read database/creds/my-dynamic-role Key Value --- ----- lease_id database/creds/my-dynamic-role/OxCTXJcxQ2F4lReWPjbezSnA lease_duration 5m lease_renewable true password dACqHsav6-attdv1glGZ username V_TOKEN_MY-DYNAMIC-ROLE_YASUQUF3GVVD0ZWTEMK4_1608481717
Static roles
Configure a static role that maps a name in Vault to an existing Redis user.
$ vault write database/static-roles/my-static-role \ db_name="my-redis-database" \ username="my-existing-redis-user" \ rotation_period=5m Success! Data written to: database/static-roles/my-static-role
Retrieve the credentials from the
/static-creds
endpoint:$ vault read database/static-creds/my-static-role Key Value --- ----- last_vault_rotation 2020-12-20T10:39:49.647822-06:00 password ylKNgqa3NPVAioBf-0S5 rotation_period 5m ttl 4m39s username my-existing-redis-user
API
The full list of configurable options can be seen in the Redis Database Plugin API page.
For more information on the database secrets engine's HTTP API please see the Database Secrets Engine API page.