secret-manager

Google Secret Manager Module

Simple Secret Manager module that allows managing one or more secrets, their versions, and IAM bindings.

Secret Manager locations are available via the gcloud secrets locations list command.

Warning: managing versions will persist their data (the actual secret you want to protect) in the Terraform state in unencrypted form, accessible to any identity able to read or pull the state file.

• Secrets
• Secret IAM bindings
• Secret versions
• Secret with customer managed encryption key
• Variables
• Outputs
• Requirements
• IAM
• APIs

Secrets

The secret replication policy is automatically managed if no location is set, or manually managed if a list of locations is passed to the secret.

module "secret-manager" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/secret-manager"
  project_id = var.project_id
  secrets = {
    test-auto = {}
    test-manual = {
      expire_time = "2025-10-02T15:01:23Z"
      locations   = [var.regions.primary, var.regions.secondary]
    }
  }
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=2 inventory=secret.yaml e2e

Secret IAM bindings

IAM bindings can be set per secret in the same way as for most other modules supporting IAM, using the iam variable.

module "secret-manager" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/secret-manager"
  project_id = var.project_id
  secrets = {
    test-auto = {}
    test-manual = {
      locations = [var.regions.primary, var.regions.secondary]
    }
  }
  iam = {
    test-auto = {
      "roles/secretmanager.secretAccessor" = ["group:${var.group_email}"]
    }
    test-manual = {
      "roles/secretmanager.secretAccessor" = ["group:${var.group_email}"]
    }
  }
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=4 inventory=iam.yaml e2e

Secret versions

As mentioned above, please be aware that version data will be stored in state in unencrypted form.

module "secret-manager" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/secret-manager"
  project_id = var.project_id
  secrets = {
    test-auto = {}
    test-manual = {
      locations = [var.regions.primary, var.regions.secondary]
    }
  }
  versions = {
    test-auto = {
      v1 = { enabled = false, data = "auto foo bar baz" }
      v2 = { enabled = true, data = "auto foo bar spam" }
    },
    test-manual = {
      v1 = { enabled = true, data = "manual foo bar spam" }
    }
  }
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=5 inventory=versions.yaml e2e

Secret with customer managed encryption key

CMEK will be used if an encryption key is set in the keys field of secrets object for the secret region. For secrets with auto-replication, a global key must be specified.

module "project" {
  source          = "./fabric/modules/project"
  name            = "sec-mgr"
  billing_account = var.billing_account_id
  prefix          = var.prefix
  parent          = var.folder_id
  services = [
    "cloudkms.googleapis.com",
    "secretmanager.googleapis.com",
  ]
}

module "kms-global" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/kms"
  project_id = module.project.project_id
  keyring = {
    location = "global"
    name     = "keyring-global"
  }
  keys = {
    "key-global" = {
    }
  }
  iam = {
    "roles/cloudkms.cryptoKeyEncrypterDecrypter" = [
      module.project.service_agents.secretmanager.iam_email
    ]
  }
}


module "kms-primary-region" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/kms"
  project_id = module.project.project_id
  keyring = {
    location = var.regions.primary
    name     = "keyring-regional"
  }
  keys = {
    "key-regional" = {
    }
  }
  iam = {
    "roles/cloudkms.cryptoKeyEncrypterDecrypter" = [
      module.project.service_agents.secretmanager.iam_email
    ]
  }
}

module "kms-secondary-region" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/kms"
  project_id = module.project.project_id
  keyring = {
    location = var.regions.secondary
    name     = "keyring-regional"
  }
  keys = {
    "key-regional" = {
    }
  }
  iam = {
    "roles/cloudkms.cryptoKeyEncrypterDecrypter" = [
      module.project.service_agents.secretmanager.iam_email
    ]
  }
}


module "secret-manager" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/secret-manager"
  project_id = module.project.project_id
  secrets = {
    test-auto = {
      keys = {
        global = module.kms-global.keys.key-global.id
      }
    }
    test-auto-nokeys = {}
    test-manual = {
      locations = [var.regions.primary, var.regions.secondary]
      keys = {
        "${var.regions.primary}"   = module.kms-primary-region.keys.key-regional.id
        "${var.regions.secondary}" = module.kms-secondary-region.keys.key-regional.id
      }
    }
  }
}
# tftest inventory=secret-cmek.yaml e2e

Variables

name	description	type	required	default
project_id	Project id where the keyring will be created.	string	✓
iam	IAM bindings in {SECRET => {ROLE => [MEMBERS]}} format.	map(map(list(string)))		{}
labels	Optional labels for each secret.	map(map(string))		{}
secrets	Map of secrets to manage, their optional expire time, locations and KMS keys in {LOCATION => KEY} format. {GLOBAL => KEY} format enables CMEK for automatic managed secrets. If locations is null, automatic management will be set.	map(object({…}))		{}
versions	Optional versions to manage for each secret. Version names are only used internally to track individual versions.	map(map(object({…})))		{}

Outputs

name	description	sensitive
ids	Fully qualified secret ids.
secrets	Secret resources.
version_ids	Version ids keyed by secret name : version name.
version_versions	Version versions keyed by secret name : version name.
versions	Secret versions.	✓

Requirements

These sections describe requirements for using this module.

IAM

The following roles must be used to provision the resources of this module:

• Cloud KMS Admin: roles/cloudkms.admin or
• Owner: roles/owner

APIs

A project with the following APIs enabled must be used to host the resources of this module:

• Google Cloud Key Management Service: cloudkms.googleapis.com