# ExSopsy  [](https://hexdocs.pm/ex_sopsy/) [](https://github.com/kkostov/ex_sopsy/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
Sopsy is a pragmatic wrapper around Mozilla SOPS allowing decryption of secrets at runtime.
The goal of the library is to offer a simple solution for bringing encrypted secrets into your Elixir application, especially suited for self-hosting (VPS) and easy-to-manage environments (e.g. doesn't require a Vault or a managed service)
## Requirements
* [Mozilla SOPS](https://github.com/getsops/sops) CLI must be installed on the system and available in the PATH.
* The Elixir application must have read access to the SOPS encrypted file.
* Use environment variables or `.sops.yaml` configuration file to configure the sops binary as needed.
## Usage
You can call `ExSopsy.load_secrets` passing a path to a SOPS encrypted file and the format of the file.
If decryption is successful, the function returns a tuple `{:ok, Map.t}` with the decrypted secret keys.
```elixir
# config/runtime.exs
if config_env() == :prod do
case ExSopsy.load_secrets("priv/secrets.enc.json", :json) do
{:ok, secrets} ->
config :my_app, MyApp.Repo,
username: secrets["db_user"],
password: secrets["db_password"]
config :my_app, MyAppWeb.Endpoint,
secret_key_base: secrets["secret_key_base"]
{:error, reason} ->
raise "Failed to load secrets: #{inspect(reason)}"
end
end
```
The library is usable from any module in the application.
## Installation
If [available in Hex](https://hex.pm/docs/publish), the package can be installed
by adding `ex_sopsy` to your list of dependencies in `mix.exs`:
```elixir
def deps do
[
{:ex_sopsy, "~> 0.1.0"}
]
end
```
Documentation can be generated with [ExDoc](https://github.com/elixir-lang/ex_doc)
and published on [HexDocs](https://hexdocs.pm). Once published, the docs can
be found at <https://hexdocs.pm/ex_sopsy>.
