Alibaba Cloud Secrets Manager

Move secrets to and from Alibaba Cloud KMS Secrets Manager in one region.

Connection

What	This provider
Vendor	Alibaba Cloud
Key	`alibaba-kms-secrets`
Availability	`available`. You can connect it today.
Credential we hold	`alibaba-access-key`
Values read back	yes
Activation	`immediate`

Direction	What it does
`import`	We read names and values out of the store into your environment.
`export`	We write names and values from your environment into the store.

immediate. The running app sees a new value at once.

Direction	Policies you can pick
`import`	`skip_existing`, `new_version`, `fail`
`export`	`create_only`, `overwrite`, `overwrite_and_prune`

How syncs work says what each one does.

Paste a credential from the vendor. We seal it and never show it again.

Field	Label	Kind	Required	What it is
`accessKeyId`	AccessKey ID	text	yes	In the RAM console, open Users, pick a user, then Create AccessKey.
`accessKeySecret`	AccessKey secret	secret; we mask it here and seal it	yes	Shown once, beside the ID, when you create the key.

You set these when you connect. Every mapping on the connection shares them.

Field	Label	Kind	Required	Advanced	What it is
`region`	Region	text	yes	no	The region that holds the secrets. One connection covers one region.
`kmsInstanceId`	KMS instance ID	text	no	yes	Set it if your account creates secrets in a KMS instance. Find it under KMS, then Instances.

You answer these once per environment you map.

Field	Label	Kind	Required	Advanced	What it is
`namePrefix`	Secret name prefix	text	yes	no	We name each secret prefix/KEY and only touch generic secrets under this prefix.

We probe for these when we verify the connection.

Permission	Directions	Blocking	Without it
`kms:ListSecrets`	every direction	yes	Preview cannot list the secrets under this prefix.
`kms:GetSecretValue`	every direction	yes	Import cannot read values, and export cannot tell which values changed.
`kms:CreateSecret`	`export`	yes	Export cannot create a new secret.
`kms:PutSecretValue`	`export`	yes	Export cannot change a value that is already there.
`kms:DeleteSecret`	`export`	no	The overwrite_and_prune policy cannot remove secrets.
`kms:RestoreSecret`	`export`	no	Export cannot write to a name you pruned until its 30-day window ends.