is there a way to use secrets when registering a f...
# ask-communityz
Zach Schumacher
05/14/2021, 4:54 PMis there a way to use secrets when registering a flow? E.g, I want to register flows via a CI pipeline, however I keep getting “local secret not found”. I would have thought that logging in w/ the cli and setting my backend to cloud wouldve forced prefect to look at cloud secrets, but maybe I am missing something? Setting environment variables does work, but I’d like to try to avoid specifying secrets via the UI and in circleci if possible.
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Kevin Kho
05/14/2021, 4:55 PM
Hi @Zach Schumacher, is this what you’re looking for ?
Kevin Kho
05/14/2021, 4:55 PM
Oh I see what you mean
Kevin Kho
05/14/2021, 5:01 PM
Will ask the team about this.
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Zach Schumacher
05/14/2021, 5:21 PMyeah i guess what i want is a lazy secret that only evaluates on cloud? Maybe the answer is just it has to be encapsulated in a task Would be cool if i could use secrets when setting env vars on a k8s run config object, tho.
Zach Schumacher
05/14/2021, 5:24 PM Copy code
# something like this
flow.run_config = KubernetesRun(env={"MY_SECRET": CloudSecret("MY_SECRET")})k
Kevin Kho
05/14/2021, 5:51 PM
You can use
PREFECT__CLOUD__USE_LOCAL_SECRETS=falseKevin Kho
05/14/2021, 5:51 PM
And it will pull it from Cloud
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Zach Schumacher
05/14/2021, 8:10 PMoh thats perfect, thanks!
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