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Azure Key vault as source for login information

  • October 16, 2019
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About Azure key vault: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/key-vault/basic-concepts

We - as well as many other - add signin information (either just username and password, or whole connection strings) to Azure key vault.

Example user scenario: You have a script that need to connect to a database and fetch some data. As you are concerned with security you do not want username and password to be written in the script. Instead you use a secret, stored in key vault, to get a connection string that the script can use.

You, as a user with access to keyvault, run the script. The script connects to keyvault and fetches the connection string and uses it to connect to the database. No password or username is floating around.

If the username or password changes, the connection string is updated in the keyvault and everything continues to work.

For Discovery Hub the scenario is mutch the same - so Discovery Hub should just store the reference to the keyvault and get the password (or the whole connection string) from the keyvault.

If the username or password changes - it is updated in the keyvault - and Discovery Hub will continue to work - as it get's the username/password from the key vault.

This would free us from needing to update username and password in Discovery Hub when needs to rotate or by other means change the passwords.

 

Best regards, Trond-Eirik

3 replies

  • Participating Frequently
  • March 1, 2021

Hi Trond-Eirik Kolloen

Thanks for submitting your idea.
Your continued feedback on our product is very important to us. 

I have passed your input to our R&D department for further evaluation.

At the time of this posting, the current product roadmap is focused on a major evolution in foundational pieces of our software including splitting the development into ODX, MDW, Semantic Layer, and User Portal. With this evolution, we will continue to see incredible innovation in the product that may exceed your expectations or make the need for this feature obsolete.

Don't hesitate to let me know if you have any questions or would like to discuss further.

Thanks!


  • New Participant
  • March 3, 2022

Fully aware that this is a dated request, but since we use TimeXtender in a corporate environment we have the same requirement and would like to see secrets stored in Azure key vault.

Please consider reopening this request.


  • Participating Frequently
  • May 3, 2022

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

In our upcoming release we will introduce a brand new solution for this.

License Keys, Client Secrets, Source Credentials will all be managed from the TimeXtender portal where you save your credentials. This will be securely behind a login and user access can be defined.