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Lab 10 - Advanced feature - Secrets

Before starting this lab, create a new folder for your files. As this lab builds on an earlier lab make a copy of lab5:

$ cp -r lab5 lab10 \
   && cd lab10

Using Secrets

Lab 5 looked at how the issue-bot could obtain the GitHub Personal Access Token from an environment variable (auth_token). An alternative approach is to use a secret to store sensitive information.

From the Docker documentation:

.. a secret is a blob of data, such as a password, SSH private key, SSL certificate, or another piece of data that should not be transmitted over a network or stored unencrypted in a Dockerfile or in your application’s source code.

This is a more secure alternative to environmental variables. Environmental variables are easier to use but are best suited to non-confidential configuration items. Seems a good fit for storing the auth_token value.

See more information about Secrets and its design in the docs.

Create a secret

Secret names must follow the DNS-1123 convention and consist of lower case alphanumeric characters or '-', and must start and end with an alphanumeric character

From a terminal run the following command:

$ echo -n <auth_token> | faas-cli secret create auth-token

Test that the secret was created:

$ faas-cli secret ls

Note: Remember that the -g flag enables easy switching between gateways. This works for secrets too.

kubectl get secret auth-token -n openfaas-fn -o json

Note: If you are deploying your function on a remote gateway make sure you create your secret on the virtual machine you use for the gateway.

When the secret is mounted by a function it will be presented as a file under /var/openfaas/secrets/auth-token. This can be read by handler.py to obtain the GitHub Personal Access Token.

Update issue-bot.yml

Replace the reference to env.yml with an instruction to make the auth-token secret available to the function:

provider:
  name: openfaas
  gateway: http://127.0.0.1:8080

functions:
  issue-bot:
    lang: python3
    handler: ./issue-bot
    image: <your-username>/issue-bot
    environment:
      write_debug: true
      gateway_hostname: "gateway.openfaas"
      positive_threshold: 0.25
    secrets:
      - auth-token

Update the issue-bot function

The function handler requires changing in order to cause it to read the auth-token secret, rather than the environment variable. This is a single line change where:

g = Github(os.getenv("auth_token"))

is replaced with

with open("/var/openfaas/secrets/auth-token","r") as authToken:  
    g = Github(authToken.read())

The full source code is available at issue-bot-secrets/bot-handler/handler.py

  • Build and deploy

Use the CLI to build and deploy the function:

$ faas-cli up -f issue-bot.yml

Now move onto Lab 11.