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:
    - packet

Examples

- text: |
    export PACKET_API_TOKEN=aQmhFLFKgfiG9w1z9fbgwcyMCQDc6Zg2 - -If you're not comfortable exporting your API token, you can pass it as a parameter to the module
  apikey: aQmhFLFKgfiG9w1z9fbgwcyMCQDc6Zg2
- text: export PACKET_API_TOKEN=aQmhFLFKgfiG9w1z9fbgwcyMCQDc6Zg2 - -If you're not comfortable exporting your API token, you can pass it as a parameter to the module

  apikey: aQmhFLFKgfiG9w1z9fbgwcyMCQDc6Zg2