Creating internal secrets

If you use an internal secrets manager with IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh (Mesh), you must create internal secrets.

Before you begin

Before you create internal secrets, you must set the type of the secrets manager strategy to internal. For more information about configuring the secrets manager, see Configuring the secrets manager.

1. Create a YAML file that contains the following attributes:

   Attribute	Description
   name	The name of the internal secret.
   type	The type of the cloud that you select.
   secret:apikey	An API key for the IBM Cloud account.
   resource_group_id	The ID of the resource group.

   For example, create a YAML file that is called secret_int.yaml.

   name: my-ibm-secret-internal
   type: cloud-ibm
   secret:
    apikey: "FuW6Nf2-_KKMBDM2vyJyL2ASaRpQts5xg9zWPy"
   resource_group_id: default-infra

2. To create an internal secret, run a command like this:

   palmctl create secret -f secret_int.yaml

   Output similar to the following example is shown:

   ...
   name: my-ibm-secret-internal
   resource_group_id: default-infra
   secret_manager_type: internal
   type: cloud-ibm
   ...