HashiCorp Vault AWS API
AWS dynamic credentials secrets engine
HashiCorp Vault AWS API is one of 28 APIs that HashiCorp Vault publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and authentication docs.
This API exposes 4 operations across 2 paths, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://vault.example.com/v1.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
HashiCorp Vault AWS API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as X-Vault-Token (vaultToken).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
vaultToken— Vault authentication token
Paths & Operations 4
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
AWS dynamic credentials secrets engine
Schemas 2
The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are AwsRole (6 properties), AwsCredentialsResponse (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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