Write a secret to AWS SecretsManager

#aws #secretsmanager #powershell #jq

AWS CLIv2

To simply create a secret named $secretName with value $secretValue

aws secretsmanager create-secret --secret-id $secretName --secret-string $secretValue

And to return its ARN using jq do:

aws secretsmanager create-secret --secret-id $secretName --secret-string $secretValue --output json | jq -r '.ARN'

PowerShell

Use PowerShell to read the ARN from the response data

$arn = aws secretsmanager create-secret --secret-id $secretName --secret-string $secretValue --output json | 
  ConvertFrom-Json | Select-Object -ExpandProperty ARN

Updating

You can use update-secret instead of create-secret in the above commands to update the value of an existing secret.