detect-secrets, A Planted Key Found By The Scan, Refused By The Hook
detect-secrets on EL 10 from PyPI into a venv of its own with a link in the PATH; the live test runs pip check, then scans a file with an AWS-shaped key (reported as AWS Access Key), has the commit hook refuse it (exit 1) and pass a clean file (exit 0). Pinned. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.
Verification
Live-testedReally deployed to a container sandbox, proven idempotent (a second run changes nothing), verified against the role’s assertions, then torn down.
Conformance
- Static validation (yamllint · ansible-lint)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed
Last verified 2026-09-21 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify
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Documentation
detect-secrets
The Yelp CLI (detect-secrets) on EL 10, pinned to a version, in a virtual
environment of its own with a link in the PATH. Original role for EL 10,
live-tested with podman on Rocky Linux 10.
There is no package; the documented install is pip. EL 10 carries no
detect-secrets, and pip install into the system Python ties the CLI's
dependencies to whatever the OS ships. This role puts the CLI in
/opt/detect-secrets, a venv apart from the system Python: an OS update
cannot break it, and it cannot break the OS. The live test asserts
import detect_secrets fails in /usr/bin/python3.
Pinned, and checked for consistency. detect_secrets_version is what gets
installed; the live test runs pip check inside the venv and expects no
broken requirements.
pip verifies nothing beyond TLS. The index is PyPI over HTTPS; there is
no signature to check. For a byte-for-byte pin, give
detect_secrets_pip_extra_args a requirements file with hashes and
--require-hashes, or a private index.
Proven to run. The live test calls detect-secrets scan creds.txt and expects
"AWS Access Key" - the whole tree loaded and the secret scanner did its work.
A planted key found by the scan and refused by the hook. The
live test writes a file with an AWS-shaped access key (a made-up
AKIA... value, not a credential) and a hex secret; detect-secrets scan is expected to report "AWS Access Key", detect-secrets-hook to
exit 1 with "Potential secrets about to be committed", and the hook to
exit 0 on a clean file. The hook is what a pre-commit configuration
calls; the pre-commit role in this catalogue runs it.
License
Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.
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