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What's the proper way to use the `secrets` argumen...

Will Milner

05/18/2020, 4:38 PM

What's the proper way to use the

secrets

argument in prefect docker storage object? I tried doing

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flow.storage = Docker(....,secrets=["SECRET_NAME"])

But when I try running the flow It fails to start and I get this error message from apollo

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{
  "message": "Cannot query field \"secret_value\" on type \"Query\".",
  "locations": [
    {
      "line": 2,
      "column": 9
    }
  ],
  "extensions": {
    "code": "GRAPHQL_VALIDATION_FAILED"
  }
}

I want to avoid sending in my secret values as environment variables to my docker images so was hoping the secrets arg would solve this for me

Kyle Moon-Wright

05/18/2020, 4:55 PM

Hey @Will Milner, That should be the way to configure a Docker Secret, though I know we recently changed the Secret API a bit. Let me get some more information for you.

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Kyle Moon-Wright

05/18/2020, 5:43 PM

So you may be encountering this issue if you’re using Prefect Server with your infrastructure. Prefect Server doesn’t fully support Secrets because it is an open-source solution and requires more infrastructure for fully-featured secret handling. We did not want to push out a half-baked solution for the open-source UI when Cloud has a rich API for handling secrets! I would highly recommend Prefect Cloud anyway for all the other features included, there’s even a free Scheduler tier.

Will Milner

05/18/2020, 5:52 PM

got it, thanks for the response

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