Equinix Authentication Token

Description

General

Documentation: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/scenario_guides/guide_packet.html
Summary: Packet.net (now Equinix) is a bare metal infrastructure host. It exposes an API to interact with the deployed services. This detector aims at catching Packet API keys.
IPs allowlist: As of the time of writing this documentation, this feature is not available.
Scopes: As of the time of writing this documentation, this feature is not available.

Revoke the secret

As of the time of writing this documentation, this feature is not available.

Check for suspicious activity

As of the time of writing this documentation, this feature is not available.

Details for `Packet api key`

Family: Api
Category: Cloud Provider
Company: Equinix
High recall: False
Validity check available: True
On-premise instances exist: False
Only valid secrets raise an alert: True
Minimum number of matches: 1
Occurrences found for one million commits: very rare
Prefixed: False
PreValidators:

- type: FilenameBanlistPreValidator
  banlist_extensions: []
  banlist_filenames: []
  check_binaries: false
  include_default_banlist_extensions: true
  ban_markup: false
- type: ContentWhitelistPreValidator
  patterns:
    - equinix

Examples

- text: |
    # Equinix API Key
    export PACKET_API_TOKEN=aQmhFLFKgfiG9w1z9fbgwcyMCQDc6Zg2
  apikey: aQmhFLFKgfiG9w1z9fbgwcyMCQDc6Zg2
- text: export EQUINIX_PACKET_API_TOKEN=aQmhFLFKgfiG9w1z9fbgwcyMCQDc6Zg2

  apikey: aQmhFLFKgfiG9w1z9fbgwcyMCQDc6Zg2