Can you give a use-case example of Blocks vs Varia...
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Stéphan Taljaard
05/16/2023, 4:45 PMCan you give a use-case example of Blocks vs Variables?
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Christopher Boyd
05/16/2023, 4:47 PMThey are very similar in general; an example that I have used, are static API urls for a 3rd party api.
There are routine messages sent in a flow to this 3rd party api (jira) , but I have different api URLS between tiers (dev / stage / prod) . I use the same code in the flow to reference the same named variable, but different values across workspaces
Christopher Boyd
05/16/2023, 4:47 PMe.g., dev might be:
https:/dev.jira.com<https://stage.jira.com>Christopher Boyd
05/16/2023, 4:48 PMthen if it changes, I can just change it in a single location
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Stéphan Taljaard
05/16/2023, 4:48 PMBlocks are preferred over Variables for storing sensitive information, right?
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Christopher Boyd
05/16/2023, 4:48 PMyes, specifically SecretStr which are intentionally obfuscated
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Christopher Boyd
05/16/2023, 4:48 PMChristopher Boyd
05/16/2023, 4:49 PMAn alternate mechanism is using a JSON block to store a reference / location to a secret in your existing secrets manager like AWS / Azure Keyvault
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Christopher Boyd
05/16/2023, 4:49 PMyou can defer the secrets that way, but that requires a little more hand-written code to access
Christopher Boyd
05/16/2023, 4:50 PMusing like identity
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