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Stéphan Taljaard

06/17/2021, 9:27 AM

Hi. Is there a way to create a Secret dynamically, as a step in a flow? I submitted a PR for SendGrid.SendEmail some time ago. I based it on other tasks in the task library, so I had the secret name passed as an argument, instead of the secret value. Now I have a GCP Secret named

shared_credentials

with contents

{"sendgrid-api-key": "abc", "some-other-api-key": "efg", ...}

, Is there a way to read the

sendgrid-api-key

value from

shared_credentials

, then create a temporary secret in the flow named

SENDGRID_API_KEY

, as required by the SendGrid task? Or other ideas to use the value inside of the secret?

Stéphan Taljaard

06/17/2021, 10:04 AM

I realise now it's really limiting to _get _the secret value inside a task. This also then rules out using cloud secrets (e.g. AWS/GCP). I think the more flexible design is the to have the Secret/GCPSecret/AWSSecret task inside the flow, get the value, then pass that value to the child task (instead of having the child do the _get_ting work)

Stéphan Taljaard

06/17/2021, 11:46 AM

PR submitted

Kevin Kho

06/17/2021, 2:54 PM

Thanks for the PR @Stéphan Taljaard! The core team will see it.

Kevin Kho

06/17/2021, 2:56 PM

I thought of your first question thought and I think the only thing you can do is to actual set the secret like

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client.set_secret(name="MYSECRET", value="MY SECRET VALUE")

one you pull it out from

shared_credentials

. This really isn’t temporary though.

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