Perl

AWS 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 the AWS Secrets Manager.

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

Perl

use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

$bootstrap = chilkat::CkSecrets->new();

# This secret will reside in memory.
$bootstrap->put_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.
$json = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$json->UpdateString("appName","AWS");
$json->UpdateString("service","Example");
$json->UpdateString("username","Joe");

# The bootstrap secret for the AWS Secrets Manager will contain
# the AWS region, access key, and secret key, like this:
$jsonSecret = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
# Modify if necessary to use your region..
$jsonSecret->UpdateString("awsRegion","us-east-1");
$jsonSecret->UpdateString("awsAccessKey","YOUR_ACCESS_KEY");
$jsonSecret->UpdateString("awsSecretKey","YOUR_SECRET_KEY");

# Create or update the bootstrap secret (in memory).
# The secret is stored encrypted in memory, and is available to be used
# regardless of the lifetime of the "bootstrap" object.
$success = $bootstrap->UpdateSecretJson($json,$jsonSecret);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $bootstrap->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "The AWS bootstrap secret has been stored in memory." . "\r\n";