Overview

HashiCorp Vault is a centralized secrets management tool that securely stores and tightly controls access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secrets. Integrating HashiCorp Vault with IDMC allows you to retrieve sensitive credentials dynamically during runtime, enhancing security by eliminating hard-coded secrets in your integration workflows. This helps protect and manage access to secrets needed for connecting to various applications, databases, and services within your data integration pipelines. 

Pre-Requisites
Self-Service Resources
Goals
  • Configure IDMC to securely retrieve secrets from HashiCorp Vault during runtime 
  • Set up integration to dynamically fetch credentials for connectors and mappings 
  • Ensure seamless and secure management of sensitive information without hard-coding secrets 
Outcome
  •  Securely access and manage secrets from HashiCorp Vault within IDMC
  • Use retrieved secrets to connect to various data sources and targets dynamically 
  • Enhance security posture by centralizing secret management and minimizing exposure
Required Roles/Personas
Required Roles/Personas
  • Architect/Administrator (to configure Vault policies and IICS connector setup) 
  • Developer (to build and maintain mappings that utilize Vault-stored secrets)  
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Engagement Details
Catalog Type

Ask An Expert

Engagement Category

Best Practices

Products

Cloud Data Integration

Engagement Type

Ask An Expert

Adoption Stage

Configure

Implement

Focus Area

Adoption - Technical

Functional

Engagement ID

AAE-CDI-025

Disclaimer

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  • Customers need to perform any hands-on work by themselves leveraging the guidance from these engagements.
  • Customers need to work with Informatica Global Customer Support for any product bugs/issues and troubleshooting.

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