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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.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

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

$bootstrap = New-Object Chilkat.Secrets

# This 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-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$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 = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
# 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 -eq $false) {
    $($bootstrap.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("The AWS bootstrap secret has been stored in memory.")