AWS Secrets Manager

I would assume that you already know what AWS Secrets Manager is. So, let's dive into some CLI commands for interacting with secrets.

Let's say your secret looks like this:

{
  "username": "admin",
  "password": "admin_password"
}

List all secrets in the account

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aws secretsmanager list-secrets --region us-east-1 | jq '.SecretList[].Name'

Get value of a secret

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aws secretsmanager get-secret-value --secret-id "my-secret" | jq '.SecretString' --output text

Get exact value of secret

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aws secretsmanager get-secret-value --secret-id "my-secret" | jq '.SecretString' --output text | jq -r '.username'
aws secretsmanager get-secret-value --secret-id "my-secret" | jq '.SecretString' --output text | jq -r '.password'