Lade (/leɪd/) is a tool allowing you to automatically load secrets from your preferred vault into environment variables or files. It limits the exposure of secrets to the time the command requiring the secrets lives.

Lade is part of the Metatype ecosystem. Consider checking out how this component integrates with the whole ecosystem and browse the documentation to see more examples.

You can download the binary executable from releases page on GitHub, make it executable and add it to your $PATH or use the method below to automate those steps.

# recommended way
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zifeo/lade/main/installer.sh | bash

# or alternative ways via cargo
cargo install lade --locked
cargo install --git https://github.com/zifeo/lade --locked

# upgrade
lade upgrade

# install shell hooks (only required once)
lade install

Compatible shells: Fish, Bash, Zsh

Compatible vaults: Infisical, 1Password CLI, Doppler, Vault

Lade will run before and after any command you run in your shell thanks to command hooks installed by lade install. On each run, it will recursively look for lade.yml files in the current directory and its parents. It will then aggregate any secrets matching the command you are running using a regex and load them into environment variables or files for the time of the run.

cd examples/terraform
terraform apply
# example = "hello world"

See lade.yml or the examples folders for other uses cases.

In case you prefer to decide when to load secrets, you can manually decide when to inject them using the inject command. Note that when running scripts or a non-interactive shell session, there is no guarantee that the shell hooks will be triggered. In that case, the inject command is the only way to load secrets.

cd examples/terraform
lade inject terraform apply

By default, Lade will load secrets into environment variables. You can change this by setting the . to the desired file name. The content will be created based on the extension. Currently, only YAML and JSON are supported.

command regex:
  .: file.yml
  ...

In the case where you have different secrets for different users, you can specify a different secret for each user by specifying each user as a key under a variable.

command regex:
  SAME_SECRET_FOR_EVERYONE: hello_world
  SECRET_FOR_THE_USER: 
    alex: alex_secret
    zifeo: zifeo_secret

Lade will use the current user by default. you can change this by setting the user subcommand.

lade user  # get currently set user
lade user tonystark  # set user to tonystark
lade user --reset  # reset user, fallback to current user

Most of the vault loaders use their native CLI to operate. This means you must have them installed locally and your login/credentials must be valid. Lade may evolve by integrating directly with the corresponding API, but this is left as future work.

command regex:
  EXPORTED_ENV_VAR: infisical://DOMAIN/PROJECT_ID/ENV_NAME/SECRET_NAME

Frequent domain(s): app.infisical.com.

Note: the /api is automatically added to the DOMAIN. This source currently only support a single domain (you cannot be logged into multiple ones).

command regex:
  EXPORTED_ENV_VAR: op://DOMAIN/VAULT_NAME/SECRET_NAME/FIELD_NAME

Frequent domain(s): my.1password.eu, my.1password.com or my.1password.ca.

command regex:
  EXPORTED_ENV_VAR: doppler://DOMAIN/PROJECT_NAME/ENV_NAME/SECRET_NAME

Frequent domain(s): api.doppler.com.

command regex:
  EXPORTED_ENV_VAR: vault://DOMAIN/MOUNT/KEY/FIELD

command regex:
  EXPORTED_ENV_VAR: passbolt://DOMAIN/RESOURCE_ID/FIELD

Supports INI, JSON, YAML and TOML files.

command regex:
  EXPORTED_ENV_VAR: file://PATH?query=.fields[0].field

PATH can be relative to the lade directory, start with ~/$HOME or absolute (not recommended when sharing the project with others as they likely have different paths).

command regex:
  EXPORTED_ENV_VAR: "value"

Escaping a value with the ! prefix enforces the use of the raw loader and double !! escapes itself.

eval "$(lade off)"
eval "$(cargo run -- on)"
echo a $A1 $A2 $B1 $B2 $B3 $C1 $C2 $C3
cargo run -- -vvv set echo a
cargo run -- inject echo a
eval "$(cargo run -- off)"
eval "$(lade on)"