AWS Parameter Store Environment Variables

The aws-params-env-action sets workflow environment variables from values in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. Parameters of type SecureString are masked.

Prerequisites

To use this action, you must have AWS credentials and region configured in the action environment. This can be done by using the configure-aws-credentials step, for example, or by running the action on a self-hosted runner in AWS with an instance profile.

Usage

The only input is params, which accepts whitespace-separated pairs of the form "ENV_VAR=/aws/param" where "ENV_VAR" will be the name of a variable added to the environment for subsequent steps in the workflow. The value of that variable will be the value retrieved from AWS Parameter Store for a parameter named "/aws/param". Here is an example step:

- name: Set env vars from AWS params
  uses: gsf/aws-params-env-action@v1
  with:
    params: |
      VAR1=/aws/parameter/a
      ENV_VAR2=/param/b
      SECRET_X=/secret/param/x

All steps in the workflow following this will have VAR1, ENV_VAR2, and SECRET_X variables in the environment with values from the referenced parameters in AWS Parameter Store. If /secret/param/x is a parameter of type SecureString then its value will be masked. This essentially replaces the verbosity and manual masking of a step like this:

- name: Set env vars
  run: |
    shopt -s expand_aliases # https://github.com/actions/toolkit/issues/766#issuecomment-928305811
    alias param="aws ssm get-parameter --output text --query Parameter.Value --with-decryption --name"

    parameter_a="$(param /aws/parameter/a)"
    echo "VAR1=$parameter_a" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"

    param_b="$(param /param/b)"
    echo "ENV_VAR2=$param_b" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"

    secret_x="$(param /secret/param/x)"
    echo "::add-mask::$secret_x"
    echo "SECRET_X=$secret_x" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"