Bitwarden is a password management service (like LastPass or 1Password). It’s unique in that it is built entirely on open source software. In addition to the the web UI and mobile apps that you would expect, Bitwarden also provides a command-line tool for interacting with the your password store.

At $WORK(-ish) we’re looking into Bitwarden because we want a password sharing and management solution that was better than dropping files into directories on remote hosts or sharing things over Slack. At the same time, we are also thinking about bringing more automation to our operational environment, possibly by making more extensive use of Ansible. It looked like all the pieces were available to use Bitwarden as a credential storage mechanism for Ansible playbooks, so I set out to write a lookup plugin to implement the integration…