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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 5, 2023

Vault Integration for Postgres RDS Creds in BAW on Container

Customer: Discover Financial Services

Product: Business Automation Workflow on Containers

version : 22.x onwards
 

Discover Financial Services Design Pattern is to have postgres credentials in vault and pods can fetch the credentials through init container or sidecar container when pod spins up. We have password retention period set to 1 year for db credentials so we want to have sidecar container in place to manually refresh the credentials before it expires or it should update the secrets. we are not storing permanent credentials for postgres

Idea priority Urgent
  • Admin
    Owen Cline
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    Sep 26, 2023

    Dear Submitter:

    Can you please answer this:


    Please check which vault the customer want to use, as there is no standard vault API, it will be very difficult for us to create a generic solution. For AWS, AWS has its solution for this scenario: Using AWS Secrets Manager secrets with Kubernetes - Amazon EKS, but if we support that, it’s for AWS secret manager only. BTW, the design is at the CP4BA level because we need other components out of BAW scope to support vault at the same time.