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How to use Boto3 to get the secret keys saved as plain text from AWS Secret Manager
Problem Statement: Use boto3 library in Python to get secret keys from AWS Secret Manager
Approach/Algorithm to solve this problem
Step 1: Import boto3 and botocore exceptions to handle exceptions.
Step 2: secret_stored_location is the required parameter. It is a place where secrets are saved.
Step 3: Create an AWS session using boto3 lib. Make sure region_name is mentioned in the default profile. If it is not mentioned, then explicitly pass the region_name while creating the session.
Step 4: Create an AWS client for secretmanager.
Step 5: Call get_secret_value and pass the secret_stored_location as SecretId.
Step 6: It returns all the secrets that are present without encryption in the given location.
Step 7: Handle the generic exception if something went wrong while retrieving values.
Example Code
Use the following code to get the plain text secret from AWS Secret Manager −
import boto3
from botocore.exceptions import ClientError
def get_secret_details(secret_stored_location):
session = boto3.session.Session()
s3_client = session.client('secretmanager')
try:
response = s3_client.get_secret_value(SecretId=secret_stored_location)
return response
except ClientError as e:
raise Exception("boto3 client error in get_secret_details: " + e.__str__())
except Exception as e:
raise Exception("Unexpected error in get_secret_details: " + e.__str__())
a = get_secret_details('/secrets/aws')
print(a['SecretString'])Output
{"aws.user":"SERVICE_USER","aws.accesskey":"I**************"}
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