Please note, this project is no longer maintained. The sops program itself has added a number of features that make this project redundant, and usage of the tool has largely migrated to using AWS Secrets Manager or AWS Parameter Store. This project is archived, and will not be updated.

The additional install repositories (https) are also deprecated and will be removed in the future.

The last release of sopstool was 1.2.1.

sopstool is a multi-file wrapper around sops. It uses the sops binary to encrypt and decrypt files, and piggybacks off the .sops.yaml configuration file.

sopstool provides functionality to manage multiple secret files at once, and even use as an entrypoint to decrypt at startup, for container images. Much of this behavior is inspired by the great blackbox project.

• sopstool
  • sopstool EOL
  • Introduction
  • 1.0.0 Release and Breaking Changes
  • Installation
    • Package Repositories
    • Container Image
    • Packages or binaries from Releases
    • Shell installer
    • Installing sops manually
      • Installing the sops binary with our script installer
      • Download sops from our https mirror (deprecated)
    • Installing sopstool manually
      • Installing the sopstool binary using our script installer
      • Download sopstool from our https mirror (deprecated)
  • Usage
  • Configuration
  • How-To
    • Walkthrough
  • Contributing
    • docs

1.0.0 release of sopstool introduces M1 / darwin-arm64 support. We also want to match build artifacts produced by GoReleaser to what sops produces. Therefore, this version introduces a breaking change where we no longer produce artifacts like sopstool_linux.(deb|rpm|tar.gz) and sopstool_darwin.tar.gz. Instead, you'll see artifacts like sopstool_darwin_(arm64|amd64)_(deb|rpm|tar.gz) and sopstool_linux_(arm64|amd64)_(deb|rpm|tar.gz) in future releases.

sopstool is available in the following repositories

• homebrew via the Ibotta/public tap: brew install Ibotta/public/sopstool
• asdf (and mise) via the sopstool plugin: asdf plugin add sopstool

Images are tagged with the same version numbering as the releases, and latest always gets the latest release. Note that your image will need root CA certificates (typically installed with curl, or a ca-certificates package).

To use sopstool from container (avoiding doing binary installs):

docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/work -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY -e AWS_REGION -e AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN -e AWS_SESSION_TOKEN ghcr.io/ibotta/sopstool:latest $COMMAND

• sopstool is the entrypoint, so any sopstool subcommand can be run.
• /work is the default WORKDIR - this should be mounted to the root where .sops.yml is stored.
• The commands need access to your AWS credentials session to authenticate KMS.

Or, use as a COPY source in your Dockerfile. sops and sopstool are in /usr/local/bin/:

COPY --from=ghcr.io/ibotta/sopstool:latest usr/local/bin/sops usr/local/bin/sopstool /usr/local/bin/

Check the Releases for the latest artifacts

• Binaries (compressed as .tar.gz or .zip) (note, you will need sops installed manually)
• RPM, Debian and APK packages

All artifacts have their sha256 checksums recorded in sopstool_checksums.txt, and SPDX SBOM artifacts are available.

The most direct install uses a shell script hosted in this repository. This script will install the latest sops (if the command does not exist) and sopstool to ./bin by default.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ibotta/sopstool/main/install.sh | bash

• Override the sops version with the -s argument
• Override the sopstool version with the -t argument
• Override the binary install location with the -b argument
  • remember, you may need sudo or root access if you are installing to /usr/*

Example with overrides:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ibotta/sopstool/main/install.sh | bash -s -- -b /usr/local/bin -s 3.0.0 -t 0.3.0

sopstool requires sops. You can use one of the following methods:

• From one of the public repositories (it is available in most)
• From the official releases

The install script above uses a separate script to download sops

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ibotta/sopstool/main/sopsinstall.sh | bash

• Override the tag with the first shell argument (defaults to latest)
• Override the binary install location with the -b flag (defaults to /.bin)

Note this method is deprecated, and will be removed in the future. Use one of the other methods instead.

To avoid needing to find the 'latest' binary by hand or by script, use our https server to download the binary. The latest binary is uploaded automatically whenever sopstool is deployed. The file has the pattern sops_$OS_$ARCH, except for windows

• OS: linux, darwin
  • ARCH: amd64, arm64
  • filenames: sops_$OS_$ARCH.tar.gz
• OS: windows
  • ARCH amd64 only
  • filename: sops_windows.zip
• Versions
  • latest: https://oss-pkg.ibotta.com/sops/$filename
  • specific tags: https://oss-pkg.ibotta.com/sops/$TAG/$filename

Following the lead of sops, we only build 64bit binaries.

The install script above uses a separate script to download sopstool

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ibotta/sopstool/main/sopstoolinstall.sh | bash

• Override the tag with the first shell argument (defaults to latest)
• Override the binary install location with the -b flag (defaults to /.bin)

Note this method is deprecated, and will be removed in the future. Use one of the other methods instead.

To avoid needing to find the 'latest' binary by hand or by script, use our https server to download the binary. The latest binary is uploaded automatically whenever sopstool is deployed.

• OS: linux, darwin
  • ARCH: amd64, arm64
  • filenames: sopstool_$OS_$ARCH.tar.gz
• OS: windows
  • ARCH: amd64, arm64
  • filename: sopstool_windows_$ARCH.zip
• Versions
  • latest: https://oss-pkg.ibotta.com/sopstool/$filename
  • specific tags: https://oss-pkg.ibotta.com/sopstool/$TAG/$filename

Additionally, all other release assets are also within this folder. This includes the checksums, packages, SBOMS, as well as installers:

• https://oss-pkg.ibotta.com/sopstool/install.sh for the combined installer
• https://oss-pkg.ibotta.com/sopstool/sopsinstall.sh for the sops installer
• https://oss-pkg.ibotta.com/sopstool/sopstoolinstall.sh for the sopstool installer

This is a package that builds a single binary (per architecture) for wrapping sops with multi-file capabilities.

For more details, use the built-in documentation on commands:

sopstool -h

to get the shell completion helpers:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
sopstool completion

#!/usr/bin/env zsh
sopstool completion --sh zsh

1. use a .sops.yaml file

   • This will be at the root of your project. This file is used to both configure keys and hold the list of files managed.

   • It needs to specify at least one KMS key accessible by your environment

     creation_rules:
       - kms: arn:aws:kms:REGION:ACCOUNT:key/KEY_ID

   • it can specify more complex cases of patterns vs keys too (see link)

1. Create a KMS Key.
2. Follow along the Configuration Steps, and place the .sops.yaml file at the root directory where your scripts will run.
   • All files added to SOPS are relative, or in child directories to the .sops.yaml configuration file.
3. Create a file to encrypt(any extension other than .yaml if you wish to do the ENTIRE file), or create a yaml file with key: value pairs(and make sure it's extension is .yaml). Sops will encrypt the values, but not it's keys.
   • You can read more about SOPS Here.
4. At this point, sopstool is ready, and you can now sopstool add filename. You'll notice it will create a filename.sops.extension. This is your newly encrypted file.
   • When your files are properly encrypted, you can run sopstool clean to remove the original plain text secret files.
5. Now, you can interact via the command line in various ways.
   • Editing an encrypted file - sopstool edit filename.sops.extension. You can also use your original filename too! sopstool edit filename.extension
   • Listing all encrypted files - sopstool list
   • Removing encrypted file - sopstool remove filename.extension
   • Display the contents of encrypted file - sopstool cat filename.extension

In this walkthrough, we will go through the steps required to get a secure yaml configuration file running.

1. Configure your .sops.yaml

   # .sops.yaml
   creation_rules:
     - kms: arn:aws:kms:REGION:ACCOUNT:key/KEY_ID

2. Create a secrets yaml configuration file

   # credentials.yaml
   database.password: supersecretdb
   database.user: supersecretpassword
   redshift:
     user: my.user.name
     password: my.password

3. Encrypt the newly created file

   sopstool add credentials.yaml

4. Create a sample script

   # myscript.py
   import yaml
   with open('credentials.yaml', 'r') as f:
       credentials = yaml.load(f)
   
   print credentials["database.user"]
   print credentials["database.password"]
   print credentials["redshift"]["user"]
   print credentials["redshift"]["password"]

5. Here is what your folder structure would look like to this point(after deleting the unencrypted credentials.yaml file)

   my-project/
   ├── .sops.yaml
   ├── credentials.sops.yaml
   └── myscript.py
   

6. Accessing credentials

   The flow should be as follows: decrypt credentials -> run script -> destroy credentials. You can use the sopstool entrypoint to achieve this.

   sopstool entrypoint python myscript.py

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome at https://github.com/Ibotta/sopstool

Generate markdown docs for the commands via

sopstool docs