AWS Secrets Manager Credentials Provider

Access credentials from AWS Secrets Manager in your Jenkins jobs.

This plugin is the high-level counterpart of the AWS Secrets Manager SecretSource plugin. You can use either plugin individually, or use both of them.

Contents

• Beta Features
• Caching
• Client
• Cross-Account Access
• Filters
• Networking
• Screenshots
• Transformations
• Troubleshooting
• Project
  • Changelog
  • CI Build

Features

• Read-only view of Secrets Manager.
• CredentialsProvider API support.
• Credential metadata caching (duration: 5 minutes).

Setup

IAM

Give Jenkins read access to Secrets Manager with an IAM policy.

Required permissions:

• secretsmanager:GetSecretValue
• secretsmanager:ListSecrets

Optional permissions:

• kms:Decrypt (if you use a customer-managed KMS key to encrypt the secret)

Example:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "AllowJenkinsToGetSecretValues",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "secretsmanager:GetSecretValue",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "AllowJenkinsToListSecrets",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "secretsmanager:ListSecrets"
        }
    ]
}

Jenkins

The plugin uses the AWS Java SDK to communicate with Secrets Manager. If you are running Jenkins outside EC2 or EKS you may need to manually configure the SDK to authenticate with AWS. See the client configuration guide for more information.

Then, install and configure the plugin.

Usage

The plugin allows secrets from Secrets Manager to be used as Jenkins credentials.

Secrets must conform to the following rules to be usable in Jenkins:

• A secret must have the relevant AWS tags (shown in the sections below) to indicate which Jenkins credential type it is meant to be (e.g. Secret Text, Username With Password). You must add these tags to the secrets. Without these tags, the corresponding credentials will not appear in Jenkins.
• The secret name should conform to Jenkins credential naming rules, as defined in the credentials-plugin. That is, it should only contain the following characters: [a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+. If it contains other characters, you may see undefined behaviour within Jenkins (e.g. URLs containing the credential's ID may not work).

Note: if you have credentials caching enabled, you must wait for the cache to reset before changes to the secrets appear.

Secret Text

A simple text secret.

• Value: secret
• Tags:
  • jenkins:credentials:type = string

Example

AWS CLI:

aws secretsmanager create-secret --name 'newrelic-api-key' --secret-string 'abc123' --tags 'Key=jenkins:credentials:type,Value=string' --description 'Acme Corp Newrelic API key'

Declarative Pipeline:

pipeline {
    agent any
    environment {
        NEWRELIC_API_KEY = credentials('newrelic-api-key')
    }
    stages {
        stage('Foo') {
            steps {
              echo 'Hello world'
            }
        }
    }
}

Scripted Pipeline:

node {
    withCredentials([string(credentialsId: 'newrelic-api-key', variable: 'NEWRELIC_API_KEY')]) {
        echo 'Hello world'
    }
}

Username with Password

A username and password pair.

• Value: password
• Tags:
  • jenkins:credentials:type = usernamePassword
  • jenkins:credentials:username = username

Example

AWS CLI:

aws secretsmanager create-secret --name 'artifactory' --secret-string 'supersecret' --tags 'Key=jenkins:credentials:type,Value=usernamePassword' 'Key=jenkins:credentials:username,Value=joe' --description 'Acme Corp Artifactory login'

Declarative Pipeline:

pipeline {
    agent any
    environment {
        // Creates variables ARTIFACTORY=joe:supersecret, ARTIFACTORY_USR=joe, ARTIFACTORY_PSW=supersecret
        ARTIFACTORY = credentials('artifactory')
    }
    stages {
        stage('Foo') {
            steps {
              echo 'Hello world'
            }
        }
    }
}

Scripted Pipeline:

node {
    withCredentials([usernamePassword(credentialsId: 'artifactory', usernameVariable: 'ARTIFACTORY_USR', passwordVariable: 'ARTIFACTORY_PSW')]) {
        echo 'Hello world'
    }
}

SSH User Private Key

An SSH private key, with a username.

• Value: private key
• Tags:
  • jenkins:credentials:type = sshUserPrivateKey
  • jenkins:credentials:username = username

Common private key formats include PKCS#1 (starts with -----BEGIN [ALGORITHM] PRIVATE KEY-----) and PKCS#8 (starts with -----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----).

Note: The passphrase field is not supported. (The SSHUserPrivateKey#getPassphrase() implementation returns an empty string if called.) This is because any passphrase would have to be stored as a tag on the AWS secret, but tags are non-secret metadata (visible in any ListSecrets API call), so the passphrase would offer no meaningful security benefit in this provider.

Example

AWS CLI:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C 'acme@example.com' -f id_rsa
aws secretsmanager create-secret --name 'ssh-key' --secret-string 'file://id_rsa' --tags 'Key=jenkins:credentials:type,Value=sshUserPrivateKey' 'Key=jenkins:credentials:username,Value=joe' --description 'Acme Corp SSH key'

Declarative Pipeline:

pipeline {
    agent any
    environment {
        // Creates variables KEY=/temp/path/to/key, KEY_USR=joe
        KEY = credentials('ssh-key')
    }
    stages {
        stage('Foo') {
            steps {
              echo 'Hello world'
            }
        }
    }
}

Scripted Pipeline:

node {
    withCredentials([sshUserPrivateKey(credentialsId: 'ssh-key', keyFileVariable: 'KEY', usernameVariable: 'KEY_USR')]) {
        echo 'Hello world'
    }
}

Certificate

A client certificate keystore in PKCS#12 format, encrypted with a zero-length password.

• Value: keystore
• Tags:
  • jenkins:credentials:type = certificate

Example

AWS CLI:

openssl pkcs12 -export -in /path/to/cert.pem -inkey /path/to/key.pem -out certificate.p12 -passout pass:
aws secretsmanager create-secret --name 'code-signing-cert' --secret-binary 'fileb://certificate.p12' --tags 'Key=jenkins:credentials:type,Value=certificate' --description 'Acme Corp code signing certificate'

Scripted Pipeline:

node {
    withCredentials([certificate(credentialsId: 'code-signing-cert', keystoreVariable: 'STORE_FILE')]) {
        echo 'Hello world'
    }
}

Secret File

A secret file with binary content and an optional filename.

• Value: content
• Tags:
  • jenkins:credentials:type = file
  • jenkins:credentials:filename = filename (optional)

The credential ID is used as the filename by default. In the rare cases when you need to override this (for example, if the credential ID would be an invalid filename on your filesystem), you can set the jenkins:credentials:filename tag.

Example

AWS CLI:

echo -n $'\x01\x02\x03' > license.bin
aws secretsmanager create-secret --name 'license-key' --secret-binary 'fileb://license.bin' --tags 'Key=jenkins:credentials:type,Value=file' --description 'License key'

Declarative Pipeline:

pipeline {
    agent any
    environment {
        LICENSE_KEY_FILE = credentials('license-key')
    }
    stages {
        stage('Example') {
            steps {
              echo 'Hello world'
            }
        }
    }
}

Scripted Pipeline:

node {
    withCredentials([file(credentialsId: 'license-key', variable: 'LICENSE_KEY_FILE')]) {
        echo 'Hello world'
    }
}

Advanced Usage

You may need to deal with multi-field credentials or vendor-specific credential types that the plugin does not (yet) support.

In this situation you have a couple of choices:

• Use the closest standard multi-field credential (e.g. Username With Password) that fits your requirements.
• Use a string credential, serialize all the fields into the secret value (e.g. as JSON or as a delimited string), and parse them in the job script. (This is a last resort when other methods don't work, e.g. when secret rotation would cause multiple fields to change.)

Example: Jenkins authenticates to Secrets Manager using the primary AWS credential (from the environment). You have a job that performs a particular AWS operation in a different account, which uses a secondary AWS credential. You choose to encode the secondary AWS credential as JSON in the string credential foo:

node {
    withCredentials([string(credentialsId: 'foo', variable: 'secret')]) {
        script {
            def creds = readJSON text: secret
            env.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = creds['accessKeyId']
            env.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = creds['secretAccessKey']
            env.AWS_REGION = 'us-east-1' // or whatever
        }
        sh "aws sts get-caller-identity" // or whatever
    }
}

Configuration

The plugin has a couple of optional settings to fine-tune its behavior. In most installations you do not need to change these settings. If you need to change the configuration, you can use the Web UI or CasC.

Web UI

You can set plugin configuration using the Web UI.

Go to Manage Jenkins > Configure System > AWS Secrets Manager Credentials Provider and change the settings.

Available settings:

• Cache
• Client
  • CredentialsProvider
  • Endpoint Configuration
  • Region
• ListSecrets configuration
  • Filters
• Transformations

Configuration As Code (CasC)

You can set plugin configuration using Jenkins Configuration As Code.

Schema:

unclassified:
  awsCredentialsProvider:
    cache: (boolean)                 # optional
    client:                          # optional
      credentialsProvider: (object)  # optional
      endpointConfiguration:         # optional
        serviceEndpoint: (URL)
        signingRegion: (string)
      region: (string)               # optional
    listSecrets:                     # optional
      filters:
        - key: name
          values:
            - (string)
        - key: tag-key
          values:
            - (string)
        - key: tag-value
          values:
            - (string)
        - key: description
          values:
            - (string)
    transformations:           # optional
      description:
        hide: {}
      name: (object)

Versioning

Version tags for this plugin are of the format:

<major>.<autogenerated>

For example 1.55.v0fcce24a_9501.

The <major> prefix is incremented to indicate breaking changes in the plugin. When this happens, please read the release notes and test the plugin extra carefully before deploying it to production. To assist users of the Jenkins Update Center we will also add an hpi.compatibleSinceVersion annotation to the POM.

The <autogenerated> part is created by the Jenkins automated plugin release system. This is incremented on any non-breaking (minor) change, e.g. new features, bug fixes, or dependency updates. It should normally be safe to adopt these changes straight away.

Development

Git

Start by cloning the project.

Note for Windows users: some of the file paths in this project may exceed the legacy Win32 path length limit. This may cause an error when cloning the project on Windows. If you see this error, enable Git's Windows longpaths support with git config --system core.longpaths true (you might need to run Git as Administrator for this to work). Then try to clone the project again.

Dependencies

• Docker
• Java
• Maven

Build

In Maven:

mvn clean verify

In your IDE:

1. Generate translations: mvn localizer:generate. (This is a one-off task. You only need to re-run this if you change the translations, or if you clean the Maven target directory. If the IDE still cannot find the translation symbols after running mvn localizer:generate, use a one-off mvn compile instead.)
2. Compile.
3. Run tests.

Run

You can explore how the plugin works by running it locally with Moto (the AWS mock)...

Start Moto:

docker run -it -p 5000:5000 motoserver/moto:3.1.18

Upload some fake secrets to Moto (like these):

aws --endpoint-url http://localhost:5000 secretsmanager create-secret --name 'example-api-key' --secret-string '123456' --tags 'Key=jenkins:credentials:type,Value=string' --description 'Example API key'

Start Jenkins with the plugin:

mvn hpi:run

Edit the plugin configuration at http://localhost:8080/jenkins/configure to use Moto:

1. Enable the Endpoint Configuration option
2. Set Service Endpoint to `http://localhost:5000
3. Set Signing Region to us-east-1
4. Click Save
5. Try loading the Jenkins credentials that have come from Moto, or using them in Jenkins jobs.