A guide for integration of AWS Secrets Manager in Spring Boot. This service will load the secrets at runtime and keep the sensitive information away from the code.
Introduction
In this article, we will understand the integration of AWS Secrets Manager in the Spring Boot Application. This service will load the secrets at runtime and make sure to keep the sensitive information away from the code.Context
When we work on a Spring Boot Application, we have an application.properties file based on the different profiles (environment). In these files, we keep all the information related to the configuration of the Spring Boot application. The file contains database credentials and other sensitive information like any credentials or ftp server’s endpoint along with credentials. This sensitive information is not recommended to be put directly into the code for security concerns. To avoid such vulnerabilities in our application, we have to take several measures in order to ensure the security of sensitive information.
There are several ways to secure this information. We can define server arguments to load such details, and other ways are there too. As we are using AWS, there is a service available for the same. The service of AWS which we can use to store sensitive information and credentials is Secrets Manager. In this document, we will see how to integrate the AWS Secrets Manager and load all the secrets at the runtime and make our application secure.What Is AWS Secrets Manager?
AWS Secrets Manager is an AWS service that makes it easier for you to manage secrets.
