Is it possible to overwrite or create a new version of a secret through ansible in azure? - azure

Question

I need to deploy my secrets in Azure's keyvault through ansible.
If the secret is a new one (i.e. it didnt exist before) it works perfectly, the secret is created properly.
Problem came when I need to update the secret, it is never overwritten.
I tried to delete it and create it again but is not working either since it performs a soft delete so it can be created again with the same name.
Here what I tried so far:
Secret creation (working fine the first time but not overwriting it)
- name: "Create endpoint secret."
azure_rm_keyvaultsecret:
secret_name: mysecret
secret_value: "desiredvalue"
keyvault_uri: "https://{{ AZURE_KV_NAME }}.vault.azure.net/"
tags:
environment: "{{ ENV }}"
role: "endpointsecret"
Here is how I try to delete it first and then creating it again
- name: "Delete endpoint secret."
azure_rm_keyvaultsecret:
secret_name: mysecret
keyvault_uri: "https://{{ AZURE_KV_NAME }}.vault.azure.net/"
state: "absent"
- name: "Create endpoint secret."
azure_rm_keyvaultsecret:
secret_name: mysecret
secret_value: "desiredvalue"
keyvault_uri: "https://{{ AZURE_KV_NAME }}.vault.azure.net/"
tags:
environment: "{{ ENV }}"
role: "endpointsecret"
When trying this error is:
Secret mysecret is currently being deleted and cannot be re-created; retry later
**Secret creation with state: present (it's not creating a new version either) **
- name: "Create endpoint secret."
azure_rm_keyvaultsecret:
secret_name: mysecret
secret_value: "desiredvalue"
keyvault_uri: "https://{{ AZURE_KV_NAME }}.vault.azure.net/"
state: "present"
tags:
environment: "{{ ENV }}"
role: "endpointsecret"
Any idea how to overwrite ( create a new version )a secret or at least perform a hard delete?

Answer 1

I find no way other than deploy it through ARM
- name: "Create ingestion keyvault secrets."
azure_rm_deployment:
state: present
resource_group_name: "{{ AZURE_RG_NAME }}"
location: "{{ AZURE_RG_LOCATION }}"
template:
$schema: "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#"
contentVersion: "1.0.0.0"
parameters:
variables:
resources:
- apiVersion: "2018-02-14"
type: "Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/secrets"
name: "{{AZURE_KV_NAME}}/{{item.name}}"
properties:
value: "{{item.secret}}"
contentType: "string"
loop: "{{ SECRETLIST }}"
register: publish_secrets
async: 300 # Maximum runtime in seconds.
poll: 0 # Fire and continue (never poll)
- name: Wait for the secret deployment task to finish
async_status:
jid: "{{ publish_secrets_item.ansible_job_id }}"
loop: "{{publish_secrets.results}}"
loop_control:
loop_var: "publish_secrets_item"
register: jobs_publish_secrets
until: jobs_publish_secrets.finished
retries: 5
delay: 2
And then in other file the SECRETLIST declared as a variable:
SECRETLIST :
- name: mysecret
secret: "secretvalue"
- name: othersecret
secret: "secretvalue2"
Hope this helps to anyone with a similar problem