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Secrets Providers

Hashicorp Vault Config Provider 

confluent-hub install confluentinc/kafka-config-provider-vault:latest

This plugin provides integration with Hashicorp Vault.

VaultConfigProvider

This config provider is used to retrieve secrets from the Hashicorp Vault.

Configuration

General

retry.count

The number of attempts to retrieve a secret from the upstream secret store.

  • Type: INT
  • Default: 3
  • Valid Values:
  • Importance: LOW
retry.interval.seconds

The amount of time in seconds to wait between each attempt to retrieve a secret form the upstream secret store.

  • Type: LONG
  • Default: 10
  • Valid Values:
  • Importance: LOW
thread.count

The number of threads to use when retrieving secrets and executing subscription callbacks.

  • Type: INT
  • Default: 3
  • Valid Values:
  • Importance: LOW
timeout.seconds

The amount of time in seconds to wait before timing out a call to retrieve a secret from the upstream secret store. The total timeout of get(path) and get(path, keys) will be retry.count * timeout.seconds. For example if timeout.seconds = 30 and retry.count = 3 then get(path) and get(path, keys) will block for 90 seconds.

  • Type: LONG
  • Default: 30
  • Valid Values:
  • Importance: LOW
vault.namespace

Sets a global namespace to the Vault server instance, if desired.

  • Type: STRING
  • Default:
  • Valid Values:
  • Importance: LOW
polling.enabled

Determines if the config provider supports polling the upstream secret stores for changes. If disabled the methods subscribe, unsubscribe, and unsubscribeAll will throw a UnsupportedOperationException.

  • Type: BOOLEAN
  • Default: true
  • Valid Values:
  • Importance: MEDIUM
polling.interval.seconds

The number of seconds to wait between polling intervals.

  • Type: LONG
  • Default: 300
  • Valid Values:
  • Importance: MEDIUM
vault.address

Sets the address (URL) of the Vault server instance to which API calls should be sent. If no address is explicitly set, the object will look to the VAULT_ADDR If you do not supply it explicitly AND no environment variable value is found, then initialization may fail.

  • Type: STRING
  • Default:
  • Valid Values:
  • Importance: HIGH
vault.auth.method

The login method to use. AppRole - Authentication via the ldap <https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/auth/token>. endpoint., Certificate - Authentication via the ldap <https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/auth/token>. endpoint., LDAP - Authentication via the ldap <https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/auth/token>. endpoint., Token - Authentication via the token <https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/auth/token>. endpoint., UserPass - Authentication via the ldap <https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/auth/token>_. endpoint.

  • Type: STRING
  • Default: Token
  • Valid Values: Matches: Token, LDAP, UserPass, Certificate, AppRole
  • Importance: HIGH
vault.auth.mount

Location of the mount to use for authentication.

  • Type: STRING
  • Default:
  • Valid Values:
  • Importance: HIGH
vault.auth.password

The password to authenticate with.

  • Type: PASSWORD
  • Default: [hidden]
  • Valid Values:
  • Importance: HIGH
vault.auth.role

The role to use for authentication.

  • Type: STRING
  • Default:
  • Valid Values:
  • Importance: HIGH
vault.auth.secret

The secret to use for authentication.

  • Type: PASSWORD
  • Default: [hidden]
  • Valid Values:
  • Importance: HIGH
vault.auth.token

Sets the token used to access Vault. If no token is explicitly set then the VAULT_TOKEN environment variable will be used.

  • Type: PASSWORD
  • Default: [hidden]
  • Valid Values:
  • Importance: HIGH
vault.auth.username

The username to authenticate with.

  • Type: STRING
  • Default:
  • Valid Values:
  • Importance: HIGH
vault.ssl.verify.enabled

Flag to determine if the configProvider should verify the SSL Certificate of the Vault server. Outside of development this should never be enabled.

  • Type: BOOLEAN
  • Default: true
  • Valid Values:
  • Importance: HIGH

Examples

LDAP

The following example uses a ldap username and password to authenticate to vault.

config.providers=vault
config.providers.vault.class=io.confluent.csid.config.provider.vault.VaultConfigProvider
config.providers.vault.param.vault.token=sdifgnabdifgasbffvasdfasdfadf
config.providers.vault.param.vault.address=https://vault.example.com
config.providers.vault.param.vault.auth.method=LDAP

Token

The following example uses a token to authenticate to vault.

config.providers=vault
config.providers.vault.class=io.confluent.csid.config.provider.vault.VaultConfigProvider
config.providers.vault.param.vault.token=sdifgnabdifgasbffvasdfasdfadf
config.providers.vault.param.vault.address=https://vault.example.com
config.providers.vault.param.vault.auth.method=Token

Token, using kv store Version 1

The following example uses a token to authenticate to vault.

config.providers=vault
config.providers.vault.class=io.confluent.csid.config.provider.vault.VaultConfigProvider
config.providers.vault.param.vault.token=sdifgnabdifgasbffvasdfasdfadf
config.providers.vault.param.vault.address=https://vault.example.com
config.providers.vault.param.vault.auth.method=Token
config.providers.vault.param.secrets.version=1