infisical secrets

Perform CRUD operations with Infisical secrets

infisical secrets

Description

This command enables you to perform CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations on secrets within your Infisical project. With it, you can view, create, update, and delete secrets in your environment.

Sub-commands

infisical secrets

Use this command to print out all of the secrets in your project

$ infisical secrets

Environment variables

INFISICAL_TOKEN

Used to fetch secrets via a service token apposed to logged in credentials. Simply, export this variable in the terminal before running this command.

# Example
export INFISICAL_TOKEN=st.63e03c4a97cb4a747186c71e.ed5b46a34c078a8f94e8228f4ab0ff97.4f7f38034811995997d72badf44b42ec

INFISICAL_DISABLE_UPDATE_CHECK

Used to disable the check for new CLI versions. This can improve the time it takes to run this command. Recommended for production environments.

To use, simply export this variable in the terminal before running this command.

# Example
export INFISICAL_DISABLE_UPDATE_CHECK=true

Flags

--expand

Parse shell parameter expansions in your secrets

Default value: true

--env

Used to select the environment name on which actions should be taken on

Default value: dev

--path

The --path flag indicates which project folder secrets will be injected from.

# Example
infisical secrets --path="/" --env=dev

infisical secrets get

This command allows you selectively print the requested secrets by name

$ infisical secrets get <secret-name-a> <secret-name-b> ...

# Example
$ infisical secrets get DOMAIN

Flags

--env

Used to select the environment name on which actions should be taken on

Default value: dev

--raw-value

Used to print the plain value of a single requested secret without any table style.

Default value: false

Example: infisical secrets get DOMAIN --raw-value

When running in CI/CD environments or in a script, set INFISICAL_DISABLE_UPDATE_CHECK env to true. This will help hide any CLI update messages and only show the secret value.

infisical secrets set

This command allows you to set or update secrets in your environment. If the secret key provided already exists, its value will be updated with the new value. If the secret key does not exist, a new secret will be created using both the key and value provided.

$ infisical secrets set <key1=value1> <key2=value2>...

## Example
$ infisical secrets set STRIPE_API_KEY=sjdgwkeudyjwe DOMAIN=example.com HASH=jebhfbwe

Flags

--env

Used to select the environment name on which actions should be taken on

Default value: dev

--path

Used to select the project folder in which the secrets will be set. This is useful when creating new secrets under a particular path.

# Example
infisical secrets set DOMAIN=example.com --path="common/backend"

infisical secrets delete

This command allows you to delete secrets by their name(s).

$ infisical secrets delete <keyName1> <keyName2>...

## Example
$ infisical secrets delete STRIPE_API_KEY DOMAIN HASH

Flags

--env

Used to select the environment name on which actions should be taken on

Default value: dev

--path

The --path flag indicates which project folder secrets will be injected from.

# Example
infisical secrets delete <keyName1> <keyName2>... --path="/"

infisical secrets folders

This command allows you to fetch, create and delete folders from within a path from a given project.

$ infisical secrets folders

sub commands

get

Used to fetch all folders within a path in a given project

infisical secrets folders get --path=/some/path/to/folder 

Flags

--path

The path from where folders should be fetched from

Default value: /

--token

Fetch folders using the Infisical service token

Default value: “

create

Used to create a folder by name within a path.

infisical secrets folders create --path=/some/path/to/folder --name=folder-name

Flags

--path

Path to where the folder should be created

Default value: /

--name

Name of the folder to be created in selected --path

Default value: “

delete

Used to delete a folder by name within a path.

infisical secrets folders delete --path=/some/path/to/folder --name=folder-name

Flags

--path

Path to where the folder should be created

Default value: /

--name

Name of the folder to be deleted within selected --path

Default value: “

infisical secrets generate-example-env

This command allows you to generate an example .env file from your secrets and with their associated comments and tags. This is useful when you would like to let others who work on the project but do not use Infisical become aware of the required environment variables and their intended values.

To place default values in your example .env file, you can simply include the syntax DEFAULT:<value> within your secret’s comment in Infisical. This will result in the specified value being extracted and utilized as the default.

$ infisical secrets generate-example-env

## Example
$ infisical secrets generate-example-env > .example-env

Flags

--env

Used to select the environment name on which actions should be taken on

Default value: dev