Questions tagged [aws-secrets-manager]
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How to set a binary secret value from the CLI for AWS Secrets Manager
How do I set a binary value on a secret in AWS Secrets Manager using the CLI?
The docs say:
--secret-binary (blob)
(Optional) Specifies binary data that you want to encrypt and store in the new version of the secret. To use this parameter in the…

Rich
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"access to kms is not allowed" error returned when trying to fetch secret from AWS Secrets Manager
An IAM user in our aws account is trying to fetch a particular secret from Secrets Manager via aws cli but they cannot do that although they should have required permissions:
aws secretsmanager get-secret-value --secret-id "config/my/secret"
This…

Juraj Martinka
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Create a role to read from AWS Secrets Manager
I use AWS Secrets Manager to store passwords which I need to read from services launched in my EC2 instances.
In order to do that one solution that I thought about where creating a role which can access to Secrets Manager and attach it to instances…

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How to retrieve binary file from aws secrets manager using aws cli
After uploading a binary secret using something like
aws secretsmanager create-secret --name my-file-secret --secret-binary fileb://mysecret.file
I'm having trouble retrieving the file using the CLI.
How can I do this ?

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