Secrets

Secret

Secret are a piece of information that you don't want to be visible in clear in your code.

The most known secret are tokens that represents a credential in order to log in to a system:

• Connection - Password Attribute
• api key
• …

To enhance secrecy you may also want to cache other information such as the location of you system (host, port,…)

To make a secret available to Tabulify, you can:

• encrypt it via the vault functionality
• or set it as:
  • an argument of the command line
  • or an environment variable