Use vault-cli in your tests

A vault pytest fixture is available, but you may want to make sure that vault-cli installs its testing extra dependencies:

$ pip install "vault-cli[testing]"

# conftest.py (for pytest)
from vault_cli.testing import vault

__all__ = ["vault"]

In your tests, use the vault fixture. It has a db parameter that you can use to simulate existing secrets (keys are paths, values are secrets). When you use the fixture, no call to a real vault will be issued, it’s all in memory. Of course, this is only meant for tests, do NOT use this for real-life use cases.

# test_something.py

def test_bla(vault):
    vault.db = {"a/b": {"c": "d"}}

    assert vault.get_secret("a/b") == "c"