Perl 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.

Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

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

my $bootstrap = Chilkat2::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.
my $json = Chilkat2::JsonObject->new;
$json->UpdateString('appName', 'ibm_bs');
$json->UpdateString('service', 'Example');
$json->UpdateString('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)
my $ibm_api_key = 'tI-oaEj_krD2F4Utd1ztRCE+wDWve8HvU15XxOdq7FkW';
my $success = $bootstrap->UpdateSecretStr($json, $ibm_api_key);
if (!$success) {
    print $bootstrap->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# 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.\n";