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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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<?php

$success = 0;

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

$bootstrap = new COM("Chilkat.Secrets");

// The bootstrap secret will reside in memory.
$bootstrap->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 = new COM("Chilkat.JsonObject");
$json->UpdateString('appName','ibm_bs');
$json->UpdateString('service','Example');
$json->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)
$ibm_api_key = 'tI-oaEj_krD2F4Utd1ztRCE+wDWve8HvU15XxOdq7FkW';
$success = $bootstrap->UpdateSecretStr($json,$ibm_api_key);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $bootstrap->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

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

print 'The IBM Cloud bootstrap secret has been stored in memory.' . "\n";

?>