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[ aws . secretsmanager ]

get-secret-value

Description

Retrieves the contents of the encrypted fields SecretString or SecretBinary from the specified version of a secret, whichever contains content.

To retrieve the values for a group of secrets, call BatchGetSecretValue .

We recommend that you cache your secret values by using client-side caching. Caching secrets improves speed and reduces your costs. For more information, see Cache secrets for your applications .

To retrieve the previous version of a secret, use VersionStage and specify AWSPREVIOUS. To revert to the previous version of a secret, call UpdateSecretVersionStage .

Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail .

Required permissions: secretsmanager:GetSecretValue . If the secret is encrypted using a customer-managed key instead of the Amazon Web Services managed key aws/secretsmanager , then you also need kms:Decrypt permissions for that key. For more information, see IAM policy actions for Secrets Manager and Authentication and access control in Secrets Manager .

See also: AWS API Documentation

Synopsis

  get-secret-value
--secret-id <value>
[--version-id <value>]
[--version-stage <value>]
[--cli-input-json <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--debug]
[--endpoint-url <value>]
[--no-verify-ssl]
[--no-paginate]
[--output <value>]
[--query <value>]
[--profile <value>]
[--region <value>]
[--version <value>]
[--color <value>]
[--no-sign-request]
[--ca-bundle <value>]
[--cli-read-timeout <value>]
[--cli-connect-timeout <value>]

Options

--secret-id (string)

The ARN or name of the secret to retrieve. To retrieve a secret from another account, you must use an ARN.

For an ARN, we recommend that you specify a complete ARN rather than a partial ARN. See Finding a secret from a partial ARN .

--version-id (string)

The unique identifier of the version of the secret to retrieve. If you include both this parameter and VersionStage , the two parameters must refer to the same secret version. If you don't specify either a VersionStage or VersionId , then Secrets Manager returns the AWSCURRENT version.

This value is typically a UUID-type value with 32 hexadecimal digits.

--version-stage (string)

The staging label of the version of the secret to retrieve.

Secrets Manager uses staging labels to keep track of different versions during the rotation process. If you include both this parameter and VersionId , the two parameters must refer to the same secret version. If you don't specify either a VersionStage or VersionId , Secrets Manager returns the AWSCURRENT version.

--cli-input-json (string) Performs service operation based on the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, the CLI values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

Global Options

--debug (boolean)

Turn on debug logging.

--endpoint-url (string)

Override command's default URL with the given URL.

--no-verify-ssl (boolean)

By default, the AWS CLI uses SSL when communicating with AWS services. For each SSL connection, the AWS CLI will verify SSL certificates. This option overrides the default behavior of verifying SSL certificates.

--no-paginate (boolean)

Disable automatic pagination. If automatic pagination is disabled, the AWS CLI will only make one call, for the first page of results.

--output (string)

The formatting style for command output.

  • json
  • text
  • table

--query (string)

A JMESPath query to use in filtering the response data.

--profile (string)

Use a specific profile from your credential file.

--region (string)

The region to use. Overrides config/env settings.

--version (string)

Display the version of this tool.

--color (string)

Turn on/off color output.

  • on
  • off
  • auto

--no-sign-request (boolean)

Do not sign requests. Credentials will not be loaded if this argument is provided.

--ca-bundle (string)

The CA certificate bundle to use when verifying SSL certificates. Overrides config/env settings.

--cli-read-timeout (int)

The maximum socket read time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket read will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-connect-timeout (int)

The maximum socket connect time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket connect will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

Examples

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal's quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

Example 1: To retrieve the encrypted secret value of a secret

The following get-secret-value example gets the current secret value.

aws secretsmanager get-secret-value \
    --secret-id MyTestSecret

Output:

{
    "ARN": "arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-west-2:123456789012:secret:MyTestSecret-a1b2c3",
    "Name": "MyTestSecret",
    "VersionId": "a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLE11111",
    "SecretString": "{\"user\":\"diegor\",\"password\":\"EXAMPLE-PASSWORD\"}",
    "VersionStages": [
        "AWSCURRENT"
    ],
    "CreatedDate": 1523477145.713
}

For more information, see Retrieve a secret in the Secrets Manager User Guide.

Example 2: To retrieve the previous secret value

The following get-secret-value example gets the previous secret value.:

aws secretsmanager get-secret-value \
    --secret-id MyTestSecret
    --version-stage AWSPREVIOUS

Output:

{
    "ARN": "arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-west-2:123456789012:secret:MyTestSecret-a1b2c3",
    "Name": "MyTestSecret",
    "VersionId": "a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLE22222",
    "SecretString": "{\"user\":\"diegor\",\"password\":\"PREVIOUS-EXAMPLE-PASSWORD\"}",
    "VersionStages": [
        "AWSPREVIOUS"
    ],
    "CreatedDate": 1523477145.713
}

For more information, see Retrieve a secret in the Secrets Manager User Guide.

Output

ARN -> (string)

The ARN of the secret.

Name -> (string)

The friendly name of the secret.

VersionId -> (string)

The unique identifier of this version of the secret.

SecretBinary -> (blob)

The decrypted secret value, if the secret value was originally provided as binary data in the form of a byte array. When you retrieve a SecretBinary using the HTTP API, the Python SDK, or the Amazon Web Services CLI, the value is Base64-encoded. Otherwise, it is not encoded.

If the secret was created by using the Secrets Manager console, or if the secret value was originally provided as a string, then this field is omitted. The secret value appears in SecretString instead.

Sensitive: This field contains sensitive information, so the service does not include it in CloudTrail log entries. If you create your own log entries, you must also avoid logging the information in this field.

SecretString -> (string)

The decrypted secret value, if the secret value was originally provided as a string or through the Secrets Manager console.

If this secret was created by using the console, then Secrets Manager stores the information as a JSON structure of key/value pairs.

Sensitive: This field contains sensitive information, so the service does not include it in CloudTrail log entries. If you create your own log entries, you must also avoid logging the information in this field.

VersionStages -> (list)

A list of all of the staging labels currently attached to this version of the secret.

(string)

CreatedDate -> (timestamp)

The date and time that this version of the secret was created. If you don't specify which version in VersionId or VersionStage , then Secrets Manager uses the AWSCURRENT version.