Lookup plugin

[mnaser]

Summary

Collection does not have a lookup module, making it very hard to use it inside things like group_vars.

Use cases

It's much more useful to be able to put things inside group vars using a lookup module than having a whole module call to make these, also, it allows you to retrieve the secret from the running host.

Proposed solution

An Ansible lookup module :)

Is there a workaround to accomplish this today?

Not really, working with a large number of secrets makes this very hard.

References & Prior Work

[azrdev]

There's community.general.onepassword_lookup

[mnaser]

this doesnt work with the 1password connect I believe.

[azrdev]

according to https://developer.1password.com/docs/connect/connect-cli the oc CLI can also talk to 1pw connect, and since the onepassword_lookup plugin is only a wrapper around oc it should work then too.
Or am I mistaken?

[thewilli]

according to https://developer.1password.com/docs/connect/connect-cli the oc CLI can also talk to 1pw connect, and since the onepassword_lookup plugin is only a wrapper around oc it should work then too. Or am I mistaken?

Nevertheless, a native way without the need for any external dependency is very handy, especially when it comes to AWX or CI/CD-driven playbook execution