Secrets Overview
  • 03 Jun 2024
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Overview

Dataloop knows the importance of securely handling sensitive information. Our secret's manager is designed to provide a robust solution for managing secrets within our platform. This guide will walk you through the capabilities and usage of our secret manager.

Secrets Manager helps you improve your security posture because you no longer need hard-coded credentials in the application source code. Storing the credentials in Secrets Manager helps avoid possible compromise by anyone who can inspect your application or the components.

Our secret's manager is a powerful tool designed to provide secure and efficient management of secrets. By creating and storing secrets and integrating them with Pipelines and Application, our platform offers a comprehensive solution for all your secret management needs.

What Can You Do With Our Secret Manager?

Create and Store Secrets
Easily create a unique name for your secret and store it as a key-value pair. This key-value pair can include anything from API keys to database credentials.

Retrieve Secrets
Access your stored secrets whenever you require them. Our platform ensures secure retrieval, allowing only authorized users to access the information.

Integrate with Pipeline and Application
Utilize your secrets across various Pipelines, or Function as a Service (Application), within our platform. This seamless integration enhances functionality and efficiency.

Manage Access
Control who can access, modify, or delete secrets. Our robust access controls ensure that only authorized users can manage secrets.

How to Use Our Secrets Manager?

Add Secrets to an Application

You can add secrets to your FaaS application, which helps secure their connections when the application tries to connect to an external resource. Refer to the Add Secrets for Application to add secrets to your function.

Add Secrets to the Pipeline

You can add secrets to your pipelines, which helps secure their connections when the pipeline tries to connect to an external resource. Refer to the Add Secrets for Pipelines to add secrets for your pipeline.


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