Secrets Manager code examples for the SDK for Python

Overview

Shows how to use the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) to work with AWS Secrets Manager.

Secrets Manager helps you to securely encrypt, store, and retrieve credentials for your databases and other services.

⚠ Important

Running this code might result in charges to your AWS account. For more details, see AWS Pricing and Free Tier.
Running the tests might result in charges to your AWS account.
We recommend that you grant your code least privilege. At most, grant only the minimum permissions required to perform the task. For more information, see Grant least privilege.
This code is not tested in every AWS Region. For more information, see AWS Regional Services.

Code examples

Prerequisites

For prerequisites, see the README in the python folder.

Install the packages required by these examples by running the following in a virtual environment:

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Single actions

Code excerpts that show you how to call individual service functions.

Scenarios

Code examples that show you how to accomplish a specific task by calling multiple functions within the same service.

Create a lending library REST API

Run the examples

Instructions

To use these examples, first deploy the secrets to AWS using this CDK stack.

Next, after pulling AWS credentials, run one of the following commands:

python3 scenario_get_secret.py
python3 scenario_get_batch_secrets.py

Create a lending library REST API

This example shows you how to create a lending library where patrons can borrow and return books by using a REST API backed by an Amazon Aurora database.

Tests

⚠ Running tests might result in charges to your AWS account.

To find instructions for running these tests, see the README in the python folder.

Additional resources

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