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Status Future consideration
Workspace App Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 28, 2024

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Native Hashicorp Vault integration

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We use Hashicorp Vault as an enterprise wide vault system. When deploying ACE CC on Kubernetes, we built a not so trivial pipeline to pull the secrets from HCV, put them into K8s secrets and when deploying a runtime, patching those secrets into a dbparms or ace vault.

A native integration to Hashicorp Vault or other dedicated vault systems would be a huge benefit for simplictiy of deployment and for improved security. 

ACE should be capable of using a dedicated vault system alternatively to the current file based and self contained vault systems within the product.
Naturally this applies to secrets used in Toolkit as well as Designer based flows.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Admin
    Ben Thompson
    Reply
    |     Jan 27, 2025

    Noting duplicate idea here: https://integration-development.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/APPC-I-1038

  • Admin
    Ben Thompson
    Reply
    |     Nov 29, 2024

    Thank you for taking the time to raise this enhancement request, which of course is timely given the likely IBM acquisition of Hashicorp (assuming the remaining regulatory approvals are forthcoming and lead to a closed transaction). In general we view positively the thought that some customers would prefer to store their credentials in an external vault technology, and yet we also very much still see the need to maintain a first class experience with our own built-in vault technology and also the need to integrate seamlessly with Kubernetes secrets. We are pleased that you have managed to use your pipeline to pull secrets from HCV and inject them into K8S secrets / an ACE vault. When adding the startup script feature to the ACE independent integration server (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/app-connect/12.0?topic=servers-configuring-independent-integration-server-startup-script), injection of credentials from a 3rd party vault was one of the leading motivators for this work. Regarding the suggestion of a more formalised built-in interface to HCV, we absolutely accept the requirement for Future Consideration.

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