load-secrets-action

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load-secrets-action loads secrets from 1Password into GitHub Actions using Service Accounts, 1Password Connect, or Workload Identity.

Specify in your workflow YAML file which secrets from 1Password should be loaded into your job, and the action will make them available as environment variables for the next steps.

Read more on the 1Password Developer Portal.

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🪄 See it in action!

✨ Quickstart

Export secrets as a step’s output (recommended)

on: push
jobs:
  hello-world:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Load secret
        id: load_secrets
        uses: 1password/load-secrets-action@v5
        env:
          OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN }}
          SECRET: op://app-cicd/hello-world/secret
          OP_ENV_FILE: "./path/to/.env.tpl" # see tests/.env.tpl for example

      - name: Print masked secret
        run: 'echo "Secret: ${{ steps.load_secrets.outputs.SECRET }}"'
        # Prints: Secret: ***

Export secrets as env variables

on: push
jobs:
  hello-world:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Load secret
        uses: 1password/load-secrets-action@v5
        with:
          # Export loaded secrets as environment variables
          export-env: true
        env:
          OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN }}
          SECRET: op://app-cicd/hello-world/secret
          OP_ENV_FILE: "./path/to/.env.tpl" # see tests/.env.tpl for example

      - name: Print masked secret
        run: 'echo "Secret: $SECRET"'
        # Prints: Secret: ***

🔑 SSH Key Format

When loading SSH keys, you can specify the format using the ssh-format query parameter. This is useful when you need the private key in a specific format like OpenSSH.

- name: Load SSH key
  uses: 1password/load-secrets-action@v5
  env:
    OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN }}
    # Load SSH private key in OpenSSH format
    SSH_PRIVATE_KEY: op://vault/item/private key?ssh-format=openssh

For more details on secret reference syntax, see the 1Password CLI documentation.

🪪 Workload Identity (public preview)

Instead of a Service Account token or Connect credentials, you can authenticate using Workload Identity, which exchanges your GitHub Actions OIDC token for short-lived 1Password access. To use it, set all three of the following environment variables (and do not set the Service Account token or the Connect variables):

on: push
jobs:
  hello-world:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      id-token: write # required for the action to request a GitHub OIDC token
      contents: read
    steps:
      - name: Load secret
        id: load_secrets
        uses: 1password/load-secrets-action@v5
        env:
          OP_WORKLOAD_ID: ${{ vars.OP_WORKLOAD_ID }}
          OP_ENVIRONMENT_ID: ${{ vars.OP_ENVIRONMENT_ID }}
          OP_INTEGRATION_KEY: ${{ secrets.OP_INTEGRATION_KEY }}

Unlike the Service Account and Connect flows, you don’t select secrets with individual op:// references. Instead, all variables defined in the configured 1Password environment are loaded and each one is exported as an environment variable (or set as a step output). Scope your environment to only the variables you want available to the job.

If only some of the three variables are set, or if they’re combined with another authentication method, the action fails with a configuration error.

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