Hi Eric,
I am sure I have not explained myself properly.
The app does the following.
It presents a user the ability to sign up to a cloud platform for a
sandbox / playground account.
The number of cloud services that are available will change over time.
Each cloud platform has a set of credentials (username, password, domain
etc...) These credentials will have elevated permissions within their
own environments and so should be kept as safe as possible.
Currently I use secrets and .env files to provide these credentials.
This requires physical access to the platform to add new secrets etc...
I want to enable editing (e.g. CRUD on the platform credentials) without
having to redeploy the application or update the secrets.
The idea was to enable an admin interface to the DB so that each cloud
platform admin could add more or delete their platform from the solution.
This requires a place to store secrets that can be updated deleted and
created.
I was hoping that there might be a standard way to store these that is
secure other than adding secrets or updating the .env file.
Thanks for trying to understand my vague question.
Lance
On 11/12/18 10:04 AM, PASCUAL Eric wrote:
Hi Lance,
but I need for people who are admins for a particular cloud to add
their cloud details to the app and then store their credentials securely.
I'm not sure to understand the need for adding cloud details to the
app for the admins.
The suggestion I made assumed that sensitive information is managed as
K8S secrets. As long as the admins have GCloud (for instance)
credentials set (which are stored and managed at GCloud level), they
can administrate the secrets resources by "applying" the corresponding
YAML descriptors remotely from their workstation. The sensitive values
are thus stored nowhere inside the application itself, but passed to
the containers at runtime as environment variables.
Maybe I've misunderstood your need and sorry in this case if my answer
is off topic.
Best
Eric
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Hi Eric,
Thanks for the response.
This idea has an end goal of being deployed in a resilient way so most
probably docker with some form of orchestration, Docker swarm or
Kubernetes.
The credentials are mainly stored in a .env file at the moment and
could be added to the secrets but I need for people who are admins for
a particular cloud to add their cloud details to the app and then
store their credentials securely.
Unfortunately this will need a dynamic storage mechanism which i don't
know how to do yet
Regards
Lance
On 11/12/18 12:03 AM, PASCUAL Eric wrote:
Hi,
It can depend on which deployment option you plan to use for the
application.
For instance, a Docker deployment orchestrated by Kubernetes gives
the option of using secrets for sensitive information, which a hoster
such as GCP manages conveniently. In this kind of deployment,
configuration (and secrets) are passed to the app as environment
variables, on which Kubernetes configuration maps and secrets are
mapped to. Thanks to this, values are stored nowhere in the app code,
companion files or database.
Regards
Eric
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On 12/11/2018 12:47 AM, Lance Haig wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a project I am working on https://github.com/lhaig/usery/ and
> part of the roadmap of the project is to add more cloud types to the
> list.
>
> I wanted to allow admins for these services to login and create
> records for their different clouds in the DB and then use these when
> people request access to these services.
>
> I need to find a secure way to store these credentials so that even if
> the DB is compromised that the credentials are safe.
I agree credentials should not be stored in the database but what are
your other assumptions about the threats?
How many sets of credentials will there be?
In future, will you be using simple credentials or tokens, certificates,
multi factor auth?
If this is a prototype and only a few sets are involved you can store
credentials in a file or one file per set and write a method to fetch
them as required. That will keep them out of the database and let you
rejig the method after you have decided how it should really work.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions on how I can accomplish this?
>
> I would really appreciate some advice.
>
> Regards
>
> Lance
>
>
>
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