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+# Allow terraform-git to seed (write once) the gitea secrets engine's admin
+# credentials. terraform-git creates the gitea-vault-admin site-admin bot and
+# writes its generated password here as admin_username + admin_password; the
+# vault gitea engine (managed by the tf_vault deployer) reads it at gitea/config
+# creation time. Read is already granted to the deployer via
+# policies/kv/service/vault/secret_backends_read.yaml, so this only adds the
+# write side for terraform-git's own identity.
+---
+rules:
+  - path: "kv/data/service/vault/au/syd1/secret_backend/gitea/config"
+    capabilities:
+      - create
+      - read
+      - update
+
+auth:
+  approle:
+    - terraform_git
+  k8s/au/syd1:
+    - woodpecker_terraform_git