AC AWS Secrets

Reads secrets from AWS secrets manager and adds them to the configuration of the embedding app.

Version 2 - BREAKING CHANGES

• works with Node16 or higher
• async/await - no callback!
• uses AWS IAM roles or AWS IAM profiles instead of IAM credentials

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
key	string	yes	the local variable name
name	string	yes	the name of the AWS secret
servers	bool	-	See below
valueHasJSON	bool	-	If true, some properties have JSON content (prefixed with JSON:)

Usage

AWS secret is a JSON object. Those properties will be merged with local config properties based on the secret's name.

Secret

Store secret in AWS

Example secret
// name: mySecret1
{
  prop1: 'abc',
  prop2: 123,
  prop3: 'JSON:{"jprop1": "abc}'
}

Configure a local variable, that should be enhanced with the secret

const config = {
  key1: {},
  otherKey: {
    prop10: 'https://www.admiralcloud.com'
  }
}

Fetch secrets

const secrets = [
  { key: 'key1', name: 'mySecret1' } // key is the config var, name is the AWS secret name
]
await awsSecrets.loadSecrets({ secrets, config })

// config will change  - key1 will be enhanced with AWS secret
const config = {
  key1: {
    prop1: 'abc',
    prop2: 123,
    prop3: 'JSON:{"jprop1": "abc}'
  },
  otherKey: {
    prop10: 'https://www.admiralcloud.com'
  }
}

Multisecrets

Use multisecrets if you want to add a number of additional secrets to be fetched. Usually it is used to fetch multiple objects for an array of objects:

Store multisecret in AWS

Example secret
// name: mySecret2
{
  values: '["aws.key1", "aws.key2"]'
}

Store secrets in AWS

// name: aws.key1
{
  accessKeyId: 'awsKey1',
  secretAccessKey: 'awsSecret1'
}

// name: aws.key2
{
  accessKeyId: 'awsKey2',
  secretAccessKey: 'awsSecret2'
}

Configure a local variable, that should be enhanced with the secret

const config = {
  mySecret2: [],
  otherKey: {
    prop10: 'https://www.admiralcloud.com'
  }
}

Fetch secrets

const multisecrets = [
  { key: 'mySecret2', name: 'mySecret2' } // key is the config var, name is the AWS secret name
]
const secrets = []
await awsSecrets.loadSecrets({ secrets, multisecrets, config })

// config will change  - key1 will be enhanced with AWS secret
const config = {
  mySecret2: [
    {
      accessKeyId: 'awsKey1',
      secretAccessKey: 'awsSecret1'
    },
    {
      accessKeyId: 'awsKey2',
      secretAccessKey: 'awsSecret2'
    }
  ]
}

VERSION 1 - OUTDATED

Usage

Simple example

Lets assume we have the following configuration and secret

let existingConfig = {
  redis: {
    host: 'localhost'
  }
}

// Stored under name "redis.cacheServer" in AWS
let secret = {
  host: 'my-secret-server'
}

The following setup will replace the existing configuration and redis.host will be "my-secret-server"

const secretParams = {
  aws: {
    accessKeyId: 'accessKeyId',
    secretAccessKey: 'secretAccessKey',
    region: 'eu-central-1'
  },
  secrets: [
    { key: 'redis', name: 'redis.cacheServer', ignoreInTestMode: true }
  ],
  config: existingConfig,
  environment: 'development'
}

awsSecrets.loadSecrets(secretParams, (err, result) => {
  if (err) return cb(err)
  _.forEach(result, (item) => {
    console.log('Setting secret for', _.padEnd(_.get(item, 'key'), 25), '->', _.get(item, 'name'))
  })
  return cb()
})

Example with array of objects

let existingConfig = {
  redis: {
    databases: [
      { db: 0, name: 'cache' },
      { db: 1, name: 'auth' }
    ]
  }
}

// secret stored under "redis.cacheServer"
let secret = {
  host: 'my-secret-server'

// secert storend under "redis.authServer"
let secret = {
  host: 'my-auth-server
}

// now use the function
const secretParams = {
  aws: {
    accessKeyId: 'accessKeyId',
    secretAccessKey: 'secretAccessKey',
    region: 'eu-central-1'
  },
  secrets: [
    { key: 'redis.databases', name: 'redis.cacheServer', servers: { identifier: 'name', value: 'cache' } }
    { key: 'redis.databases', name: 'redis.authServer', servers: { identifier: 'name', value: 'auth' } }
  ],
  config: existingConfig,
  environment: 'development'
}

awsSecrets.loadSecrets(secretParams, (err, result) => {
  // now 
  redis.databases: [
    { db: 0, name: 'cache', host: 'my-secret-server' },
    { db: 1, name: 'auth', host: 'my-auth-server' }
  ]
})

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License

MIT License Copyright © 2009-present, AdmiralCloud AG, Mark Poepping