Azure auth method (API)

This is the API documentation for the Vault Azure auth method plugin. To learn more about the usage and operation, see the Vault Azure method documentation.

This documentation assumes the plugin method is mounted at the /auth/azure path in Vault. Since it is possible to enable auth methods at any location, please update your API calls accordingly.

Configure

Configures the credentials required for the plugin to perform API calls to Azure. These credentials will be used to query the metadata about the virtual machine.

Method	Path
POST	/auth/azure/config

Parameters

• tenant_id (string: <required>) - The tenant id for the Azure Active Directory organization. This value can also be provided with the AZURE_TENANT_ID environment variable.

• resource (string: <required>) - The resource URL for the application registered in Azure Active Directory. The value is expected to match the audience (aud claim) of the JWT provided to the login API. See the resource parameter for how the audience is set when requesting a JWT access token from the Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) endpoint. This value can also be provided with the AZURE_AD_RESOURCE environment variable.

• environment (string: 'AzurePublicCloud') - The Azure cloud environment. Valid values: AzurePublicCloud, AzureUSGovernmentCloud, AzureChinaCloud, AzureGermanCloud. This value can also be provided with the AZURE_ENVIRONMENT environment variable.

• client_id (string: '') - The client id for credentials to query the Azure APIs. Currently read permissions to query compute resources are required. This value can also be provided with the AZURE_CLIENT_ID environment variable.

• client_secret (string: '') - The client secret for credentials to query the Azure APIs. This value can also be provided with the AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET environment variable.

• max_retries (int: 3) - The maximum number of attempts a failed operation will be retried before producing an error.

• max_retry_delay (string: '60s') - The maximum delay, in seconds, allowed before retrying an operation.

• retry_delay (string: '4s') - The initial amount of delay, in seconds, to use before retrying an operation. Increases exponentially.

Sample payload

{
  "tenant_id": "kd83...",
  "resource": "https://management.azure.com/",
  "client_id": "12ud...",
  "client_secret": "DUJDS3..."
}

Sample request

$ curl \
    --header "X-Vault-Token: ..." \
    --request POST \
    --data @payload.json \
    https://127.0.0.1:8200/v1/auth/azure/config

Read config

Returns the previously configured config, including credentials.

Method	Path
GET	/auth/azure/config

Sample request

$ curl \
    --header "X-Vault-Token: ..." \
    https://127.0.0.1:8200/v1/auth/azure/config

Sample response

{
  "data":{
    "tenant_id": "kd83...",
    "resource": "https://management.azure.com/",
    "client_id": "12ud...",
    "client_secret": "DUJDS3..."
  },
  ...
}

Delete config

Deletes the previously configured Azure config and credentials.

Method	Path
DELETE	/auth/azure/config

Sample request

$ curl \
    --header "X-Vault-Token: ..." \
    --request DELETE \
    https://127.0.0.1:8200/v1/auth/azure/config

Rotate root

This endpoint generates a new client secret for the root account defined in the config. The value generated will only be known by Vault.

Method	Path
POST	/azure/rotate-root

Parameters

There are no parameters to this operation.

Sample request

$ curl \
  --header "X-Vault-Token: ..." \
  --request POST \
  https://127.0.0.1:8200/v1/auth/azure/rotate-root

Create/Update role

Registers a role in the method. Role types have specific entities that can perform login operations against this endpoint. Constraints specific to the role type must be set on the role. These are applied to the authenticated entities attempting to login.

Method	Path
POST	/auth/azure/role/:name

Parameters

• name (string: <required>) - Name of the role.

• bound_service_principal_ids (array: []) - The list of Service Principal IDs that login is restricted to.

• bound_group_ids (array: []) - The list of group ids that login is restricted to.

• bound_locations (array: []) - The list of locations that login is restricted to.

• bound_subscription_ids (array: []) - The list of subscription IDs that login is restricted to.

• bound_resource_groups (array: []) - The list of resource groups that login is restricted to.

• bound_scale_sets (array: []) - The list of scale set names that the login is restricted to.

@include 'tokenfields.mdx'

Sample payload

{
  "token_policies": ["default", "dev", "prod"],
  "max_ttl": 1800000,
  "max_jwt_exp": 10000,
  "bound_resource_groups": ["vault-dev", "vault-staging", "vault-prod"]
}

Sample request

$ curl \
    --header "X-Vault-Token: ..." \
    --request POST \
    --data @payload.json \
    https://127.0.0.1:8200/v1/auth/azure/role/dev-role

Read role

Returns the previously registered role configuration.

Method	Path
GET	/auth/azure/role/:name

Parameters

• name (string: <required>) - Name of the role.

Sample request

$ curl \
    --header "X-Vault-Token: ..." \
    https://127.0.0.1:8200/v1/auth/azure/role/dev-role

Sample response

{
  "data":{
    "token_policies": [
        "default",
        "dev",
        "prod"
    ],
    "max_ttl": 1800000,
    "max_jwt_exp": 10000,
    "bound_resource_groups": [
        "vault-dev",
        "vault-staging",
        "vault-prod"
    ]
  },
  ...
}

List roles

Lists all the roles that are registered with the plugin.

Method	Path
LIST	/auth/azure/role

Sample request

$ curl \
    --header "X-Vault-Token: ..." \
    --request LIST \
    https://127.0.0.1:8200/v1/auth/azure/role

Sample response

{
  "data": {
    "keys": [
      "dev-role",
      "prod-role"
    ]
  },
  ...
}

Delete role

Deletes the previously registered role.

Method	Path
DELETE	/auth/azure/role/:name

Parameters

• name (string: <required>) - Name of the role.

Sample request

$ curl \
    --header "X-Vault-Token: ..." \
    --request DELETE \
    https://127.0.0.1:8200/v1/auth/azure/role/dev-role

Login

Fetch a token. This endpoint takes a signed JSON Web Token (JWT) and a role name for some entity. It verifies the JWT signature to authenticate that entity and then authorizes the entity for the given role.

Method	Path
POST	/auth/azure/login

Sample payload

• role (string: <required>) - Name of the role against which the login is being attempted.

• jwt (string: <required>) - Signed JSON Web Token (JWT) from Azure MSI. See Azure documentation for details on how to acquire a JWT access token through instance metadata.

• subscription_id (string: <required>) - The subscription ID for the machine that generated the MSI token. This information can be obtained through instance metadata.

• resource_group_name (string: <required>) - The resource group for the machine that generated the MSI token. This information can be obtained through instance metadata.

• vm_name (string: "") - The virtual machine name for the machine that generated the MSI token. This information can be obtained through instance metadata. If vmss_name is provided, this value is ignored.

• vmss_name (string: "") - The virtual machine scale set name for the machine that generated the MSI token. This information can be obtained through instance metadata.

• resource_id (string: "") - The fully qualified ID of the Azure resource that generated the MSI token, including the resource name and resource type. Use the format /subscriptions/{guid}/resourceGroups/{resource-group-name}/{resource-provider-namespace}/{resource-type}/{resource-name}. If vm_name or vmss_name is provided, this value is ignored.

Sample payload

{
  "role": "dev-role",
  "jwt": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9..."
}

Sample request

$ curl \
    --request POST \
    --data @payload.json \
    https://127.0.0.1:8200/v1/auth/azure/login

Sample response

{
    "auth":{
        "client_token":"f33f8c72-924e-11f8-cb43-ac59d697597c",
        "accessor":"0e9e354a-520f-df04-6867-ee81cae3d42d",
        "token_policies":[
            "default",
            "dev",
            "prod"
        ],
        "lease_duration":2764800,
        "renewable":true
    },
    ...
}