PHP

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.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v10.1.0 or later.

Chilkat2 PHP

<?php

use Chilkat2\JsonObject;
use Chilkat2\Secrets;

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

$bootstrap = new Secrets();

// 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.
$json = new JsonObject();
$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)
$ibm_api_key = 'tI-oaEj_krD2F4Utd1ztRCE+wDWve8HvU15XxOdq7FkW';
try {
    $bootstrap->UpdateSecretStr($json, $ibm_api_key);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

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

echo "The IBM Cloud bootstrap secret has been stored in memory.\n";