Java Vault Connector

Java Vault Connector is a connector library for Vault by Hashicorp written in Java. The connector allows simple usage of Vault's secret store in own applications.

Features:

• HTTP(S) backend connector
  • Ability to provide or enforce custom CA certificate
  • Optional initialization from environment variables
• Authorization methods
  • Token
  • Username/Password
  • AppID (register and authenticate) [deprecated]
  • AppRole (register and authenticate)
• Tokens
  • Creation and lookup of tokens
  • TokenBuilder for speaking creation of complex configuraitons
• Secrets
  • Read secrets
  • Write secrets
  • List secrets
  • Delete secrets
  • Renew/revoke leases
  • Raw secret content or JSON decoding
  • SQL secret handling
• Connector Factory with builder pattern
• Tested against Vault 0.7.3

Maven Artifact

<dependency>
    <groupId>de.stklcode.jvault</groupId>
    <artifactId>connector</artifactId>
    <version>0.6.0</version>
</dependency>

Usage Examples

Initialization

// Instantiate using builder pattern style factory (TLS enabled by default)
VaultConnector vault = VaultConnectorFactory.httpFactory()
 .withHost("127.0.0.1")
 .withPort(8200)
 .withTLS()
 .build();

// Instantiate with custom SSL context
VaultConnector vault = VaultConnectorFactory.httpFactory()
 .withHost("example.com")
 .withPort(8200)
 .withTrustedCA(Paths.get("/path/to/CA.pem"))
 .build();

// Initialization from environment variables 
VaultConnector vault = VaultConnectorFactory.httpFactory()
 .fromEnv()
 .build();

Authentication

// Authenticate with token
vault.authToken("01234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789abcdef");

// Authenticate with username and password
vault.authUserPass("username", "p4ssw0rd");

// Authenticate with AppID (secret - 2nd argument - is optional)
vault.authAppId("01234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789abcdef", "fedcba98-7654-3210-fedc-ba9876543210");

Secret read & write

// Retrieve secret (prefix "secret/" assumed, use read() to read arbitrary paths)
String secret = vault.readSecret("some/secret/key").getValue();

// Complex secret
Map<String, Object> secretData = vault.readSecret("another/secret/key").getData();

// Write simple secret
vault.writeSecret("new/secret/key", "secret value");

// Write complex data to arbitraty path
Map<String, Object> map = [...]
vault.write("any/path/to/write", map);

// Delete secret
vault.delete("any/path/to/write");

Token and role creation

// Create token using TokenBuilder
Token token = new TokenBuilder().withId("token id")
                                .withDisplayName("new test token")
                                .withPolicies("pol1", "pol2")
                                .build();
vault.createToken(token);

// Create AppRole credentials
vault.createAppRole("testrole", policyList);
AppRoleSecretResponse secret = vault.createAppRoleSecret("testrole");

Links

Project Page

JavaDoc API

Planned features

• Creation and modification of policies
• Implement more authentication methods

License

The project is licensed under Apache License 2.0.