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Secrets YAML

This document is the reference for the YAML syntax used for creating Semaphore secrets.

Overview​

A secret is a bucket that stores environment variables and files.

A secret (along with its contents) is created for the current organization and is available to this organization only, unless you add it to other organizations. Additionally, a secret is visible to all the users of an organization.

apiVersion​

The apiVersion property defines the version of the YAML grammar that will be used in the current YAML file. Different versions might have different features.

The only possible value for this property is: v1beta

kind​

The kind property defines the purpose of the YAML file.

Possible values are:

metadata​

The metadata property defines the metadata of the Secrets YAML file.

It can have only one of two properties:

name​

The value of the name property, which is a string, defines the name of the secret in the metadata context.

This name value will be used in the Pipeline YAML file for importing a specific secret.

The value of each name property should be unique for all secrets that exist under the same organization and must only contain alphanumerical characters ([a-z], [A-Z], or [0-9]). Dashes, underscores, hyphens, and spaces are not allowed.

project_id_or_name​

This is a required field for project-level secrets. It must contain either the project name or project ID of the project the secret is scoped to.

org_config​

Available On
PlansScaleup

The org_config property holds organization access policy fields, which are enabled for organizations on a Startup plan or higher.

This property can contain the following:

projects_access​

This field can be set to one of three values:

  • ALL: all projects in the organizations can use this secret in jobs
  • ALLOWED: the secret is available to projects in the allowed list
  • NONE: does not allow use of the secret by any project

projects_ids​

This field is a list of project IDs to be added to the allowlist to use a secret when projects_access is set to ALLOWED.

If projects_access is set to ALL or NONE this whitelist is ignored.

debug_access​

This field controls whether jobs containing the secret can be started for debugging.

The possible values are:

  • JOB_DEBUG_YES
  • JOB_DEBUG_NO

attach_access​

This field controls if a job containing the secret can be attached for debugging.

The possible values are:

  • JOB_ATTACH_YES
  • JOB_ATTACH_NO

data​

The mandatory data property holds a single env_vars paris or a single files property.

env_vars​

The env_vars property is a list of key-value pairs to define environment variables that will be inserted into a secret.

Each key-value pair is an item of an array with these properties:

  • name: name of the environment variable. It should follow these guidelines
  • value: value for the environment variable

files​

The files property holds a list of path-content pairs used for storing files.

Each path-content pair is an item of an array with these properties:

  • path: the path to inject the file once the secret is imported into the job
  • content: a Base64 encoded representation of the contents of the file

Example with variables​

This example defines a secret named a-secret-name, which contains two environment variables named SECRET_ONE and SECRET_TWO, which have the values This is the value of SECRET_ONE and This is the value of SECRET_TWO, respectively.

Example
apiVersion: v1beta
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: a-secret-name
data:
  env_vars:
    - name: SECRET_ONE
      value: "This is the value of SECRET_ONE"
    - name: SECRET_TWO
      value: "This is the value of SECRET_TWO"

The following example is equivalent:

Example
apiVersion: v1beta
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: a-secret-name
data:
  env_vars:
    - name: SECRET_ONE
      value: "This is the value of SECRET_ONE"
    - name: SECRET_TWO
      value: "This is the value of SECRET_TWO"
  files: []

Example with files​

The following example shows a secret with a base64 encoded file. The file is restored in the job as file.txt

Example
apiVersion: v1beta
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: my-secrets
data:
  env_vars:
  - name: SECRET_ONE
    value: This is a little secret
  files:
  - path: file.txt
    content: SGVsbG8gU2VtYXBob3JlIDIuMAo=

Example with an empty secret​

If you want to create an empty secret, you can define the data block as follows:

apiVersion: v1beta
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: empty-secret
data:
  env_vars: []
  files: []

See also​