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Component: external-secrets-operator

This component (ESO) is used to create an external SecretStore configured to synchronize secrets from AWS SSM Parameter store as Kubernetes Secrets within the cluster. Per the operator pattern, the external-secret-operator pods will watch for any ExternalSecret resources which reference the SecretStore to pull secrets from.

In practice, this means apps will define an ExternalSecret that pulls all env into a single secret as part of a helm chart; e.g.:

# Part of the charts in `/releases

apiVersion: external-secrets.io/v1beta1
kind: ExternalSecret
metadata:
name: app-secrets
spec:
refreshInterval: 30s
secretStoreRef:
name: "secret-store-parameter-store" # Must match name of the Cluster Secret Store created by this component
kind: ClusterSecretStore
target:
creationPolicy: Owner
name: app-secrets
dataFrom:
- find:
name:
regexp: "^/app/" # Match the path prefix of your service
rewrite:
- regexp:
source: "/app/(.*)" # Remove the path prefix of your service from the name before creating the envars
target: "$1"

This component assumes secrets are prefixed by "service" in parameter store (e.g. /app/my_secret). The SecretStore. The component is designed to pull secrets from a path prefix (defaulting to "app"). This should work nicely along chamber which uses this same path (called a "service" in Chamber). For example, developers should store keys like so.

assume-role acme-platform-gbl-sandbox-admin
chamber write app MY_KEY my-value

See docs/recipies.md for more information on managing secrets.

Usage

Stack Level: Regional

Use this in the catalog or use these variables to overwrite the catalog values.

components:
terraform:
eks/external-secrets-operator:
settings:
spacelift:
workspace_enabled: true
vars:
enabled: true
name: "external-secrets-operator"
helm_manifest_experiment_enabled: false
chart: "external-secrets"
chart_repository: "https://charts.external-secrets.io"
chart_version: "0.8.3"
kubernetes_namespace: "secrets"
create_namespace: true
timeout: 90
wait: true
atomic: true
cleanup_on_fail: true
tags:
Team: sre
Service: external-secrets-operator
resources:
limits:
cpu: "100m"
memory: "300Mi"
requests:
cpu: "20m"
memory: "60Mi"
parameter_store_paths:
- app
- rds
# You can use `chart_values` to set any other chart options. Treat `chart_values` as the root of the doc.
#
# # For example
# ---
# chart_values:
# installCRDs: true
chart_values: {}

Requirements

NameVersion
terraform>= 1.0.0
aws>= 4.0
helm>= 2.0
kubernetes>= 2.7.1, != 2.21.0, != 2.21.0

Providers

NameVersion
aws>= 4.0
kubernetes>= 2.7.1, != 2.21.0, != 2.21.0

Modules

NameSourceVersion
account_mapcloudposse/stack-config/yaml//modules/remote-state1.5.0
ekscloudposse/stack-config/yaml//modules/remote-state1.5.0
external_secrets_operatorcloudposse/helm-release/aws0.10.1
external_ssm_secretscloudposse/helm-release/aws0.10.1
iam_roles../../account-map/modules/iam-rolesn/a
thiscloudposse/label/null0.25.0

Resources

NameType
kubernetes_namespace.defaultresource
aws_eks_cluster_auth.eksdata source
kubernetes_resources.crddata source

Inputs

NameDescriptionTypeDefaultRequired
additional_tag_mapAdditional key-value pairs to add to each map in tags_as_list_of_maps. Not added to tags or id.
This is for some rare cases where resources want additional configuration of tags
and therefore take a list of maps with tag key, value, and additional configuration.
map(string){}no
atomicIf set, installation process purges chart on fail. The wait flag will be set automatically if atomic is used.booltrueno
attributesID element. Additional attributes (e.g. workers or cluster) to add to id,
in the order they appear in the list. New attributes are appended to the
end of the list. The elements of the list are joined by the delimiter
and treated as a single ID element.
list(string)[]no
chartChart name to be installed. The chart name can be local path, a URL to a chart, or the name of the chart if repository is specified. It is also possible to use the <repository>/<chart> format here if you are running Terraform on a system that the repository has been added to with helm repo add but this is not recommended.string"external-secrets"no
chart_descriptionSet release description attribute (visible in the history).string"External Secrets Operator is a Kubernetes operator that integrates external secret management systems including AWS SSM, Parameter Store, Hasicorp Vault, 1Password Secrets Automation, etc. It reads values from external vaults and injects values as a Kubernetes Secret"no
chart_repositoryRepository URL where to locate the requested chart.string"https://charts.external-secrets.io"no
chart_valuesAdditional values to yamlencode as helm_release values.any{}no
chart_versionSpecify the exact chart version to install. If this is not specified, the latest version is installed.string"0.6.0-rc1"no
cleanup_on_failAllow deletion of new resources created in this upgrade when upgrade fails.booltrueno
contextSingle object for setting entire context at once.
See description of individual variables for details.
Leave string and numeric variables as null to use default value.
Individual variable settings (non-null) override settings in context object,
except for attributes, tags, and additional_tag_map, which are merged.
any
{
"additional_tag_map": {},
"attributes": [],
"delimiter": null,
"descriptor_formats": {},
"enabled": true,
"environment": null,
"id_length_limit": null,
"label_key_case": null,
"label_order": [],
"label_value_case": null,
"labels_as_tags": [
"unset"
],
"name": null,
"namespace": null,
"regex_replace_chars": null,
"stage": null,
"tags": {},
"tenant": null
}
no
create_namespaceCreate the Kubernetes namespace if it does not yet existboolnullno
delimiterDelimiter to be used between ID elements.
Defaults to - (hyphen). Set to "" to use no delimiter at all.
stringnullno
descriptor_formatsDescribe additional descriptors to be output in the descriptors output map.
Map of maps. Keys are names of descriptors. Values are maps of the form
{<br/> format = string<br/> labels = list(string)<br/>}
(Type is any so the map values can later be enhanced to provide additional options.)
format is a Terraform format string to be passed to the format() function.
labels is a list of labels, in order, to pass to format() function.
Label values will be normalized before being passed to format() so they will be
identical to how they appear in id.
Default is {} (descriptors output will be empty).
any{}no
eks_component_nameThe name of the eks componentstring"eks/cluster"no
enabledSet to false to prevent the module from creating any resourcesboolnullno
environmentID element. Usually used for region e.g. 'uw2', 'us-west-2', OR role 'prod', 'staging', 'dev', 'UAT'stringnullno
helm_manifest_experiment_enabledEnable storing of the rendered manifest for helm_release so the full diff of what is changing can been seen in the planboolfalseno
id_length_limitLimit id to this many characters (minimum 6).
Set to 0 for unlimited length.
Set to null for keep the existing setting, which defaults to 0.
Does not affect id_full.
numbernullno
kube_data_auth_enabledIf true, use an aws_eks_cluster_auth data source to authenticate to the EKS cluster.
Disabled by kubeconfig_file_enabled or kube_exec_auth_enabled.
boolfalseno
kube_exec_auth_aws_profileThe AWS config profile for aws eks get-token to usestring""no
kube_exec_auth_aws_profile_enabledIf true, pass kube_exec_auth_aws_profile as the profile to aws eks get-tokenboolfalseno
kube_exec_auth_enabledIf true, use the Kubernetes provider exec feature to execute aws eks get-token to authenticate to the EKS cluster.
Disabled by kubeconfig_file_enabled, overrides kube_data_auth_enabled.
booltrueno
kube_exec_auth_role_arnThe role ARN for aws eks get-token to usestring""no
kube_exec_auth_role_arn_enabledIf true, pass kube_exec_auth_role_arn as the role ARN to aws eks get-tokenbooltrueno
kubeconfig_contextContext to choose from the Kubernetes kube config filestring""no
kubeconfig_exec_auth_api_versionThe Kubernetes API version of the credentials returned by the exec auth pluginstring"client.authentication.k8s.io/v1beta1"no
kubeconfig_fileThe Kubernetes provider config_path setting to use when kubeconfig_file_enabled is truestring""no
kubeconfig_file_enabledIf true, configure the Kubernetes provider with kubeconfig_file and use that kubeconfig file for authenticating to the EKS clusterboolfalseno
kubernetes_namespaceThe namespace to install the release into.stringn/ayes
label_key_caseControls the letter case of the tags keys (label names) for tags generated by this module.
Does not affect keys of tags passed in via the tags input.
Possible values: lower, title, upper.
Default value: title.
stringnullno
label_orderThe order in which the labels (ID elements) appear in the id.
Defaults to ["namespace", "environment", "stage", "name", "attributes"].
You can omit any of the 6 labels ("tenant" is the 6th), but at least one must be present.
list(string)nullno
label_value_caseControls the letter case of ID elements (labels) as included in id,
set as tag values, and output by this module individually.
Does not affect values of tags passed in via the tags input.
Possible values: lower, title, upper and none (no transformation).
Set this to title and set delimiter to "" to yield Pascal Case IDs.
Default value: lower.
stringnullno
labels_as_tagsSet of labels (ID elements) to include as tags in the tags output.
Default is to include all labels.
Tags with empty values will not be included in the tags output.
Set to [] to suppress all generated tags.
Notes:
The value of the name tag, if included, will be the id, not the name.
Unlike other null-label inputs, the initial setting of labels_as_tags cannot be
changed in later chained modules. Attempts to change it will be silently ignored.
set(string)
[
"default"
]
no
nameID element. Usually the component or solution name, e.g. 'app' or 'jenkins'.
This is the only ID element not also included as a tag.
The "name" tag is set to the full id string. There is no tag with the value of the name input.
stringnullno
namespaceID element. Usually an abbreviation of your organization name, e.g. 'eg' or 'cp', to help ensure generated IDs are globally uniquestringnullno
parameter_store_pathsA list of path prefixes that the SecretStore is allowed to access via IAM. This should match the convention 'service' that Chamber uploads keys under.set(string)
[
"app"
]
no
rbac_enabledService Account for pods.booltrueno
regex_replace_charsTerraform regular expression (regex) string.
Characters matching the regex will be removed from the ID elements.
If not set, "/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/" is used to remove all characters other than hyphens, letters and digits.
stringnullno
regionAWS Regionstringn/ayes
resourcesThe cpu and memory of the deployment's limits and requests.
object({
limits = object({
cpu = string
memory = string
})
requests = object({
cpu = string
memory = string
})
})
n/ayes
stageID element. Usually used to indicate role, e.g. 'prod', 'staging', 'source', 'build', 'test', 'deploy', 'release'stringnullno
tagsAdditional tags (e.g. {'BusinessUnit': 'XYZ'}).
Neither the tag keys nor the tag values will be modified by this module.
map(string){}no
tenantID element _(Rarely used, not included by default)_. A customer identifier, indicating who this instance of a resource is forstringnullno
timeoutTime in seconds to wait for any individual kubernetes operation (like Jobs for hooks). Defaults to 300 secondsnumbernullno
verifyVerify the package before installing it. Helm uses a provenance file to verify the integrity of the chart; this must be hosted alongside the chartboolfalseno
waitWill wait until all resources are in a ready state before marking the release as successful. It will wait for as long as timeout. Defaults to true.booltrueno

Outputs

NameDescription
metadataBlock status of the deployed release

References

CHANGELOG

Components PR [eks/external-secrets-operator] Set default chart

This is a bug fix and feature enhancement update. No actions necessary to upgrade.

Fixes

  • Set default chart