Creating an AWS-STS-backed backingstore

Amazon Web Services Security Token Service (AWS STS) is an AWS feature and it is a way to authenticate using short-lived credentials. Creating an AWS-STS-backed backingstore involves the following:

  • Creating an AWS role using a script, which helps to get the temporary security credentials for the role session

  • Installing {product-name-short} operator in AWS STS OpenShift cluster

  • Creating backingstore in AWS STS OpenShift cluster