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IBM Cloud Secrets - Setup Bootstrap Secret in Memory

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Accessing a cloud-based secrets manager requires authentication credentials, which cannot be stored within the secrets manager itself.

This example shows how to set up an in-memory bootstrap secret with authentication credentials which will be used in other examples to access IBM Cloud Secrets.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v10.1.0 or later.

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Local $bSuccess = False

; This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
; See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$oBootstrap = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Secrets")

; The bootstrap secret will reside in memory.
$oBootstrap.Location = "memory"

; Specify the name of the bootstrap secret.
; service and username are required.
; appName and domain are optional.
; Note: The values are arbitrary and can be anything you want.
$oJson = ObjCreate("Chilkat.JsonObject")
$oJson.UpdateString("appName","ibm_bs")
$oJson.UpdateString("service","Example")
$oJson.UpdateString("username","Joe")

; The bootstrap secret for the IBM Cloud Secrets will contain
; your IBM Cloud API Key, like this..
; (change the following to use your own IBM Cloud API key)
Local $sIbm_api_key = "tI-oaEj_krD2F4Utd1ztRCE+wDWve8HvU15XxOdq7FkW"
$bSuccess = $oBootstrap.UpdateSecretStr($oJson,$sIbm_api_key)
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oBootstrap.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; The secret is stored encrypted in memory, and is available to be used
; regardless of the lifetime of the "bootstrap" object.

ConsoleWrite("The IBM Cloud bootstrap secret has been stored in memory." & @CRLF)