How do you retrieve secrets from your application?

[CameronGo]

I've been rolling through the published documentation and I hope I haven't stupidly missed something, but I don't actually see anywhere that discusses how to retrieve secrets once they are stored on the service.  I have an instance running in my test env and have created a couple of services and creds.  I just don't know how or by what mechanism I am to use to retrieve them at run-time.

[Ryan Lane]

Hey Cameron,

In Confidant version 1.1 we include an opinionated client, that can be installed via pip (confidant-client). This has a CLI and also a python library that can be included directly into your code. We call the client, output the service's secrets into a file on a ramdisk, and have the applications import that. We put this into a cron and detect changes to the secrets. If the secrets change we restart our services.

We're doing a version 1.1 release today, so we'll have docs available on how to use the client.

- Ryan

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:59 AM, CameronGo <livedr...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been rolling through the published documentation and I hope I haven't stupidly missed something, but I don't actually see anywhere that discusses how to retrieve secrets once they are stored on the service.  I have an instance running in my test env and have created a couple of services and creds.  I just don't know how or by what mechanism I am to use to retrieve them at run-time.

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[CameronGo]

OK - great, I'll look for that info on the client.  Thanks!

On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 2:24:42 PM UTC-4, Ryan Lane wrote:

Hey Cameron,

In Confidant version 1.1 we include an opinionated client, that can be installed via pip (confidant-client). This has a CLI and also a python library that can be included directly into your code. We call the client, output the service's secrets into a file on a ramdisk, and have the applications import that. We put this into a cron and detect changes to the secrets. If the secrets change we restart our services.

We're doing a version 1.1 release today, so we'll have docs available on how to use the client.

- Ryan

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:59 AM, CameronGo <livedr...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been rolling through the published documentation and I hope I haven't stupidly missed something, but I don't actually see anywhere that discusses how to retrieve secrets once they are stored on the service.  I have an instance running in my test env and have created a couple of services and creds.  I just don't know how or by what mechanism I am to use to retrieve them at run-time.

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