Secrets

Generate Environment Variables to save your confidential information from getting exposed.

You can generate Environment variables for the confidential information of your database using the Secret Management function. Thus, it saves your secret information from getting exposed to all the accessible users.

Pre-requisite:

• The users must configure the Secret Management using the Admin module of the platform before attempting the Secret option inside the DS Lab module.

• The configured Secrets must be shared with a user group to access it inside the Data Science Lab module.

• The user account selected for this activity must belong to the same user group to which the configured secrets were shared.

Configuring the Secret Management Administration option

Once the Secret Management has been configured from the Admin module it will have the Secret Key and related fields as explained in this section.

• Navigate to the Secret Management option from the Admin module.

• Add a Secret Key name.

• Insert field values for the added Secret Key.

• Click the Save option to save the Secret Management configuration.

Please Note: The given image displays a sample Secret key name. The exact secret key name should be provided or configured by the administrator.

• Share the configured Secret Management key to a user group.

Accessing the Secrets tab under a DS Notebook

• Access a Data Science Notebook from a user account that is part of the User group with which the configured secret is shared.

• Open the Secrets tab from the right side.

• Use the Refresh icon to get the latest configured Secret Key.

• The newly created Secret Key is listed below. Click on a Secret Key option.

• The selected Secret Key name option is displayed with a drop-down icon. Click the drop-down icon next to the Secret Key name to get the fields.

• Add a new Code cell.

• Select the Secret Keys by using the given checkboxes.

• The encrypted environment variables for the fields are generated in the code cell.

• Add a new Code cell.

• Open the Writers tab.

• Select a writer type using the checkbox. E.g., In this case, MySQL has been selected.

• Map the encrypted secret keys for the related configuration details like Username, Password, Port, Host, and Database by copying them.

• Run the cell.

• The data frame will be written to the selected writer's database.