Lua Requires Chilkat v10.1.0+

IBM Cloud Secrets - Setup Bootstrap Secret in Memory

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Accessing a cloud-based secrets manager requires authentication credentials, which cannot be stored within the secrets manager itself.

This example shows how to set up an in-memory bootstrap secret with authentication credentials which will be used in other examples to access IBM Cloud Secrets.

Lua

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
-- See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

local bootstrap = chilkat.Secrets.new()

-- The bootstrap secret will reside in memory.
bootstrap.location = "memory"

-- Specify the name of the bootstrap secret.
-- service and username are required.
-- appName and domain are optional.
-- Note: The values are arbitrary and can be anything you want.
local json = chilkat.JsonObject.new()
json:update_string("appName", "ibm_bs")
json:update_string("service", "Example")
json:update_string("username", "Joe")

-- The bootstrap secret for the IBM Cloud Secrets will contain
-- your IBM Cloud API Key, like this..
-- (change the following to use your own IBM Cloud API key)
local ibm_api_key = "tI-oaEj_krD2F4Utd1ztRCE+wDWve8HvU15XxOdq7FkW"
local success = bootstrap:update_secret_str(json, ibm_api_key)
if not success then
    print(bootstrap.last_error_text)
    return
end

-- The secret is stored encrypted in memory, and is available to be used
-- regardless of the lifetime of the "bootstrap" object.

print("The IBM Cloud bootstrap secret has been stored in memory.")