ttkeys

ttkeys helps with injecting secret keys securely into apps.

how to install ttkeys

wget curl ttkeys.simplifiednetworks.co/ttkeys-v0.0.1.tar
tar -xvf ttkeys-v0.0.1.tar
mv ttkeys /usr/bin/ttkeys

how to use ttkeys

Once ttkeys is installed, you can use it to run a sample nodejs program like this:

ttkeys node index.js

ttkeys looks at the configuration file ttkeysconfig.yaml (discussed next) to determine where to fetch the secrets from. Once fetched successfully, ttkeys starts the application and injects the keys into the environment of the started application. This way the application can access the secrets from its environment variables.

ttkeys config file

ttkeys uses a config file to determine where to get the secret keys from. Right now, ttkeys can fetch secrets from AWS SecretsManager. To configure ttkeys to pull your secrets from AWS SecretManager, place a ttkeysconfig.yaml file in the root directory of your project. The contents of the ttkeysconfig.yaml file should look like this:

secretStore: aws_sm
region: us-east-1
secretName: tt-test-secret

Possible values for AWS regions used in the ttkeysconfig.yam file are the following:

- ap-east-1      // Asia Pacific (Hong Kong).
- ap-northeast-1 // Asia Pacific (Tokyo).
- ap-northeast-2 // Asia Pacific (Seoul).
- ap-south-1     // Asia Pacific (Mumbai).
- ap-southeast-1 // Asia Pacific (Singapore).
- ap-southeast-2 // Asia Pacific (Sydney).
- ca-central-1   // Canada (Central).
- eu-central-1   // EU (Frankfurt).
- eu-north-1     // EU (Stockholm).
- eu-west-1      // EU (Ireland).
- eu-west-2      // EU (London).
- eu-west-3      // EU (Paris).
- sa-east-1      // South America (Sao Paulo).
- us-east-1      // US East (N. Virginia).
- us-east-2      // US East (Ohio).
- us-west-1      // US West (N. California).
- us-west-2      // US West (Oregon).

ttkeys config file location

ttkeys' config file can be placed in any of the following locations:

• the root directory of your project. Most preferred option
• $HOME/.ttkeys
• /etc/ttkeys/. This can serve as a global configuration of ttkeys

unrelated installations

install node

cd /usr/local
sudo tar xvf ~/node-v10.16.0-linux-x64.tar.xz --strip=1

add golang to environment path

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin

tar up the ttkeys executable

tar -zcvf ttkeys.tar.gz ttkeys