Sharing credentials between provisions of service instances

[maleck13]

Feature:

UseCase

I have an Operator that will deploy a number of service instances from a namespace broker into a privileged namespace based on a custom resource. These services are intended to be shared and consumed by users of the cluster. Once provisioned, I want to tell the broker to use a secret that contains the credentials and coordinates of a shared service with each subsequent provisions of that APB so that subsequent provisions can interact with the shared service without the need for the requesting user to know the credentials or coordinates of that service.

Currently, if you have perms, you can create a secret in the brokers namespace and have them mounted into a specific APB container using the broker-config https://github.com/openshift/ansible-service-broker/blob/master/docs/config.md#secrets-configuration

It would be useful to be able to define these secrets dynamically.

• It would stop the need to redeploy the broker to pick up new secrets
• It would mean you would not need to know all the details ahead of time.

Initial concerns

• As the secret could change / be updated (for instance as one shared service became full and a new one was provisioned) , the broker will need to copy this credential for each provision or keep track of which service instances received which secret so that during a deprovision the APB would receive the correct values to interact with the same service again.

@eriknelson @jmrodri any thoughts on the concern of tracking which credential were given to which service instance.

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