---
id: apache-airflow-providers-akeyless
version: "0.3.0"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# apache-airflow-providers-akeyless — Provider package apache-airflow-providers-akeyless for Apache Airflow

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 143.0K/mo

## What it is and what it does

This is an Apache Airflow provider package that connects Airflow to Akeyless Vault Platform for centralized secret management. It supplies a Hook for programmatic access, a Connection type for configuring Akeyless endpoints, and a Secrets Backend that allows Airflow to retrieve secrets directly from Akeyless instead of storing them locally. You use it when you want Airflow DAGs and tasks to authenticate with external systems, databases, or APIs using secrets stored and rotated in Akeyless.

The package requires Apache Airflow 2.11.0 or later and the akeyless Python SDK (5.0.0+). It supports Python 3.10 through 3.14 and is maintained as part of the official Apache Airflow provider ecosystem, so it receives regular updates and integrates cleanly with Airflow's native secret-handling mechanisms.

Use it for:

- Retrieve database credentials from Akeyless within an Airflow task without hardcoding them in DAG code.
- Rotate API keys automatically through Akeyless while Airflow tasks continue to fetch the current version.
- Centralize secrets management across multiple Airflow instances by pointing them all to a single Akeyless vault.
- Use Akeyless dynamic secrets to generate temporary credentials with short TTLs for each Airflow task execution.
- Manage SSH keys, certificates, and other static secrets for Airflow operators that connect to external systems.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Integrates Akeyless Vault Platform with Apache Airflow, providing a Hook, Connection type, and Secrets Backend for managing static, dynamic, and rotated secrets within Airflow workflows.

Yes, if you run Apache Airflow and use Akeyless for secrets management. The package is actively maintained, carries no known vulnerabilities, installs with low friction, and integrates directly into Airflow's native secret-handling layer. Install it only if you have an Akeyless instance and Airflow 2.11.0+; it is not useful without both.

## Install

pip install apache-airflow-providers-akeyless
uv add apache-airflow-providers-akeyless
poetry add apache-airflow-providers-akeyless

## Installing apache-airflow-providers-akeyless

Before you install: Low install friction; a pure-Python wheel with three runtime dependencies. Actively maintained by Apache, released 17 days ago with no known vulnerabilities.

License in practice: Apache 2.0 permissive license; you can use, modify, and distribute this package freely in commercial and private projects.

Quickstart:

pip install apache-airflow-providers-akeyless

from airflow.providers.akeyless.hooks.akeyless import AkeylessHook

hook = AkeylessHook(conn_id='akeyless_default')
secret_value = hook.get_secret(secret_name='my-secret')

Requires Apache Airflow 2.11.0 or later and an active Akeyless Vault Platform instance with configured credentials.

Verify before relying:

- Whether the package works with Akeyless Cloud ID integration without the optional akeyless_cloud_id extra.
- Performance characteristics when managing large numbers of secrets or high-frequency secret rotation.

## Package facts

- License: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 143.0K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

airflow secrets backend, akeyless vault integration, airflow secret management, dynamic secrets airflow, airflow provider akeyless, vault platform airflow, airflow connection secrets, airflow-provider, secrets-management, vault-integration

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