Configure the Secrets Manager

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Overview of your Secret Manager

In the STACKIT Portal navigate to Security > Secrets Manager. Select one of your created Secrets Managers in the list to get an overview of the information about your service, like:

Name which you have given to your service
Status of your service
Secrets Manager-ID
Amount of users and secrets (updated every hour)
Default version limit - this can be overridden at the secret level

A screenshot showing the secrets manager overview page in the STACKIT Portal with all the general information, endpoint information and access control information.

Create a user

In the STACKIT Portal navigate to Security > Secrets Manager. Select one of your created Secrets Managers in the list. In the sidebar on the left select “Users” to get an overview of the users.

Create a new user, which is allowed to access your secrets, by clicking the button Create user.

By selecting a role you can grant “read only” or “read and write” rights.

As the username and password are generated automatically, you can fill out the description field to distinguish between users and see for which reason you have created the user.

A screenshot showing the pop up after clicking create user. Here you can choose the role and add a description.

Click on Create. Copy and save the created password. The password cannot be retrieved later.

A screenshot showing the pop up after clicking create. The pop up provides a username and password, which have to be saved and cannot be retrieved later.

With this user you are now able to interact via API/CLI with your Secrets Manager instance.