ERROR! couldn't resolve module/action 'community.hashi_vault'.

[Kaiser016X]

Hello everyone. I was trying to use an ansible playbook with the community.hashi_vault 5.0.0 module, but i still have : ERROR! couldn't resolve module/action ...
I think i met all the requirements , if anyone has and idea ?

Thanks you very much for any help/ideas

edit : i also did it on another server, this time with almalinux 8.7 and it's the same error.

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Here is all the information:

os : almalinux 9.2
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ansible --version
ansible [core 2.14.5]
  config file = None
  configured module search path = ['/home/shed/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /home/shed/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.9.14 (main, Jan  9 2023, 00:00:00) [GCC 11.3.1 20220421 (Red Hat 11.3.1-2)] (/usr/bin/python3)
  jinja version = 3.1.2
  libyaml = True

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pip show hvac
Name: hvac
Version: 1.2.1
Summary: HashiCorp Vault API client
Home-page: https://github.com/hvac/hvac
Author: Ian Unruh
Author-email: ianunruh@gmail.com
License: Apache-2.0
Location: /home/shed/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages
Requires: requests, pyhcl
Required-by:

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the begining of playbook ( it's just a test vault server dont worry :D )

---
- name: Test
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: test
      community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault:
        url: http://192.168.122.4:8200
        token: hvs.CAESIGALCSn9OLtiB-6BboaickZvQFIpAeNu2vpUDywbhsKmGh4KHGh2cy5NckhBYTZ4cjNrRXFZSUNFWkhHM0VwMHI
        secret: kv/foo
      register: vault_data

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/home/shed/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections
Collection            Version
--------------------- -------
community.hashi_vault 5.0.0

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=> full error :

ERROR! couldn't resolve module/action 'community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault'. This often indicates a misspelling, missing collection, or incorrect module path.

The error appears to be in '/home/shed/play.yml': line 5, column 7, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

  tasks:
    - name: Read message from Vault
      ^ here

[briantist]

Hi @Kaiser016X , welcome!

The issue you have here is that community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault is a lookup plugin, and you are trying to use it as a module/action.

Lookup plugins are used inside Jinja2 templating, like {{ lookup('community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault', ...) }}.

This collection contains content other than the hashi_vault lookup, and many of those include both lookup and module forms.

First, I will recommend that you move away from community.hashi_vault.hashi_vault toward the other content in this collection. For details on how and why, see these guides:

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/collections/community/hashi_vault/docsite/migration_hashi_vault_lookup.html
• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/collections/community/hashi_vault/docsite/about_hashi_vault_lookup.html

I also think it's a good idea to use modules instead of lookups in many cases, and there's information on that too:

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/collections/community/hashi_vault/docsite/lookup_guide.html

---

For your use case, I can't tell definitively from your example if you're using v1 or v2 of Vault's KV secrets engine. I will assume v2. For that, we have the vault_kv2_get module.

So your example can be changed like so:

---
- name: Test
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: test
      community.hashi_vault.vault_kv2_get:
        url: http://192.168.122.4:8200
        token: hvs.CAESIGALCSn9OLtiB-6BboaickZvQFIpAeNu2vpUDywbhsKmGh4KHGh2cy5NckhBYTZ4cjNrRXFZSUNFWkhHM0VwMHI
        engine_mount_point: kv
        path: foo
      register: vault_data

- name: Display the secret
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    var: vault_data.secret

If you were using KVv1 instead, the example is exactly the same, except you would use the vault_kv1_get module instead.

[Kaiser016X]

Hi @briantist

Thanks for the answer it was really helpfull.

Have a nice day ;)

[briantist]

Great, glad to hear it!