infisical

Open-source, end-to-end encrypted tool to manage secrets and configs across your team and infrastructure.

Deprecated!

This is now considered a legacy SDK, as we have released a new SDK that will be receiving all future updates. You can find it here.

Table of Contents

• Links
• Basic Usage
• Secrets
  • Get Secrets
  • Get Secret
  • Create Secret
  • Update Secret
  • Delete Secret
• Cryptography
  • Create Symmetric Key
  • Encrypt Symmetric
  • Decrypt Symmetric

Links

• Infisical

Basic Usage

from flask import Flask
from infisical import InfisicalClient

app = Flask(__name__)

client = InfisicalClient(token="your_infisical_token")

@app.route("/")
def hello_world():
    # access value
    name = client.get_secret("NAME", environment="dev", path="/")
    return f"Hello! My name is: {name.secret_value}"

This example demonstrates how to use the Infisical Python SDK with a Flask application. The application retrieves a secret named "NAME" and responds to requests with a greeting that includes the secret value.

It is also possible to use the SDK to encrypt/decrypt text; the implementation uses aes-256-gcm with components of the encryption/decryption encoded in base64.

from infisical import InfisicalClient

client = InfisicalClient()

# some plaintext you want to encrypt
plaintext = 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'

# create a base64-encoded, 256-bit symmetric key
key = client.create_symmetric_key()

# encrypt
ciphertext, iv, tag = client.encrypt_symmetric(plaintext, key)

# decrypt
cleartext = client.decrypt_symmetric(ciphertext, key, iv, tag)

Installation

You need Python 3.7+.

$ pip install infisical

Configuration

Import the SDK and create a client instance with your Infisical Token.

from infisical import InfisicalClient

client = InfisicalClient(token="your_infisical_token")

Using Infisical Token V3 (Beta):

In v1.5.0, we released a superior token authentication method; this credential is a JSON containing a publicKey, privateKey, and serviceToken and can be used to initialize the Node SDK client instead of the regular service token.

You can use this beta feature like so:

from infisical import InfisicalClient

client = InfisicalClient(token_json="your_infisical_token_v3_json")

Options

Parameter	Type	Description
token	string	An Infisical Token scoped to a project and environment(s).
tokenJson	string	An Infisical Token V3 JSON scoped to a project and environment(s) - in beta
site_url	string	Your self-hosted Infisical site URL. Default: https://app.infisical.com.
cache_ttl	number	Time-to-live (in seconds) for refreshing cached secrets. Default: 300.
debug	boolean	Turns debug mode on or off. Default: false.

Caching

The SDK caches every secret and updates it periodically based on the provided cache_ttl. For example, if cache_ttl of 300 is provided, then a secret will be refetched 5 minutes after the first fetch; if the fetch fails, the cached secret is returned.

Secrets

Get Secrets

secrets = client.get_all_secrets(environment="dev", path="/foo/bar/")

Retrieve all secrets within a given environment and folder path. The service token used must have access to the given path and environment.

Parameters

• environment (string): The slug name (dev, prod, etc) of the environment from where secrets should be fetched from.
• path (string): The path from where secrets should be fetched from.
• include_imports (boolean): Whether or not to include imported secrets from the current path. Read about secret import. If not specified, the default value is True.
• attach_to_os_environ (boolean): Whether or not to attach fetched secrets to os.environ. If not specified, the default value is False.

Get Secret

secret = client.get_secret("API_KEY", environment="dev", path="/")
value = secret.secret_value # get its value

By default, get_secret() fetches and returns a personal secret. If not found, it returns a shared secret, or tries to retrieve the value from os.environ. If a secret is fetched, get_secret() caches it to reduce excessive calls and re-fetches periodically based on the cacheTTL option (default is 300 seconds) when initializing the client — for more information, see the caching section.

To explicitly retrieve a shared secret:

secret = client.get_secret(secret_name="API_KEY", type="shared", environment="dev", path="/")
value = secret.secret_value # get its value

Parameters

• secret_name (string): The key of the secret to retrieve.
• environment (string): The slug name (dev, prod, etc) of the environment from where secrets should be fetched from.
• path (string): The path from where secrets should be fetched from.
• type (string, optional): The type of the secret. Valid options are "shared" or "personal". If not specified, the default value is "personal".

Create Secret

Create a new secret in Infisical

new_api_key = client.create_secret("API_KEY", "FOO", environment="dev", path="/", type="shared")

Parameters

• secret_name (string): The key of the secret to create.
• secret_value (string): The value of the secret.
• environment (string): The slug name (dev, prod, etc) of the environment from where secrets should be fetched from.
• path (string): The path from where secrets should be created.
• type (string, optional): The type of the secret. Valid options are "shared" or "personal". If not specified, the default value is "shared". A personal secret can only be created if a shared secret with the same name exists.

Update Secret

Update an existing secret in Infisical

updated_api_key = client.update_secret("API_KEY", "BAR", environment="dev", path="/", type="shared")

Parameters

• secret_name (string): The key of the secret to update.
• secret_value (string): The new value of the secret.
• environment (string): The slug name (dev, prod, etc) of the environment from where secrets should be fetched from.
• path (string): The path from where secrets should be updated.
• type (string, optional): The type of the secret. Valid options are "shared" or "personal". If not specified, the default value is "shared".

Delete Secret

Delete a secret in Infisical

deleted_secret = client.delete_secret("API_KEY", environment="dev", path="/", type="shared")

Parameters

• secret_name (string): The key of the secret to delete.
• environment (string): The slug name (dev, prod, etc) of the environment from where secrets should be fetched from.
• path (string): The path from where secrets should be deleted.
• type (string, optional): The type of the secret. Valid options are "shared" or "personal". If not specified, the default value is "shared".

Cryptography

Create Symmetric Key

Create a base64-encoded, 256-bit symmetric key to be used for encryption/decryption.

key = client.create_symmetric_key()

Returns

key (string): A base64-encoded, 256-bit symmetric key.

Encrypt Symmetric

Encrypt plaintext -> ciphertext.

ciphertext, iv, tag = client.encrypt_symmetric(plaintext, key)

Parameters

• plaintext (string): The plaintext to encrypt.
• key (string): The base64-encoded, 256-bit symmetric key to use to encrypt the plaintext.

Returns

• ciphertext (string): The base64-encoded, encrypted plaintext.
• iv (string): The base64-encoded, 96-bit initialization vector generated for the encryption.
• tag (string): The base64-encoded authentication tag generated during the encryption.

Decrypt Symmetric

Decrypt ciphertext -> plaintext/cleartext.

cleartext = client.decrypt_symmetric(ciphertext, key, iv, tag)

Parameters

• ciphertext (string): The ciphertext to decrypt.
• key (string): The base64-encoded, 256-bit symmetric key to use to decrypt the ciphertext.
• iv (string): The base64-encoded, 96-bit initiatlization vector generated for the encryption.
• tag (string): The base64-encoded authentication tag generated during encryption.

Returns

cleartext (string): The decrypted encryption that is the cleartext/plaintext.

Contributing

Bug fixes, docs, and library improvements are always welcome. Please refer to our Contributing Guide for detailed information on how you can contribute.

Getting Started

If you want to familiarize yourself with the SDK, you can start by forking the repository and cloning it in your local development environment.

After cloning the repository, we recommend that you create a virtual environment:

$ python -m venv env

Then activate the environment with:

# For linux
$ source ./env/bin/activate

# For Windows PowerShell
$ .\env\Scripts\Activate.ps1

Make sure that you have the latest version of pip to avoid errors on the next step:

$ python -m pip install --upgrade pip

Then install the project in editable mode and the dependencies with:

$ pip install -e '.[dev,test]'

To run existing tests, you need to make a .env at the root of this project containing a INFISICAL_TOKEN and SITE_URL. This will execute the tests against a project and environment scoped to the INFISICAL_TOKEN on a running instance of Infisical at the SITE_URL (this could be Infisical Cloud).

To run all the tests you can use the following command:

$ pytest tests

License

infisical-python is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.