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# Secrets | ||||||||||
<blockquote class="info"> | ||||||||||
This article explains how to use secrets in a workspace. To authenticate the | ||||||||||
workspace provisioner, see <a href="./templates/authentication">this</a>. | ||||||||||
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</blockquote> | ||||||||||
Coder is open-minded about how you get your secrets into your workspaces. | ||||||||||
## Wait a minute... | ||||||||||
Your first stab at secrets with Coder should be your local method. | ||||||||||
You can do everything you can locally and more with your Coder workspace, so | ||||||||||
whatever workflow and tools you already use to manage secrets may be brought | ||||||||||
over. | ||||||||||
For most, this workflow is simply: | ||||||||||
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1. Give your users their secrets in advance | ||||||||||
1. Your users write them to a persistent file after | ||||||||||
they've built their workspace | ||||||||||
<a href="./templates#parameters">Template parameters</a> are a dangerous way to accept secrets. | ||||||||||
We show parameters in cleartext around the product. Assume anyone with view | ||||||||||
access to a workspace can also see its parameters. | ||||||||||
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This is the case right now, but could change in the near future, so I left out the specifics.
The specific permission nodes seem likely to change in the near future as we build out RBAC. So, I phrased it in the safest way. | ||||||||||
## Dynamic Secrets | ||||||||||
Dynamic secrets are attached to the workspace lifecycle and automatically | ||||||||||
injected into the workspace. For a little bit of up front template work, | ||||||||||
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they make life simpler for both the end user and the security team. | ||||||||||
This method is limited to | ||||||||||
[services with Terraform providers](https://registry.terraform.io/browse/providers), | ||||||||||
which excludes obscure API providers. | ||||||||||
Dynamic secrets can be implemented in your template code like so: | ||||||||||
```hcl | ||||||||||
resource "twilio_iam_api_key" "api_key" { | ||||||||||
account_sid = "ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" | ||||||||||
friendly_name = "Test API Key" | ||||||||||
} | ||||||||||
resource "coder_agent" "dev" { | ||||||||||
# ... | ||||||||||
env = { | ||||||||||
# Let users access the secret via $TWILIO_API_SECRET | ||||||||||
TWILIO_API_SECRET = "${twilio_iam_api_key.api_key.secret}" | ||||||||||
} | ||||||||||
} | ||||||||||
``` | ||||||||||
A catch-all variation of this approach is dynamically provisioning a cloud service account (e.g [GCP](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/google/latest/docs/resources/google_service_account_key#private_key)) | ||||||||||
for each workspace and then making the relevant secrets available via the cloud's secret management | ||||||||||
system. | ||||||||||
## Coder SSH Key | ||||||||||
Coder automatically inserts an account-wide SSH key into each workspace. In MacOS | ||||||||||
and Linux this key is at `~/.ssh/id_ecdsa`. You can view and | ||||||||||
regenerate the key in the dashboard at Settings > SSH keys. |
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#Provider Authentication | ||
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