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Northflank global secrets

Secrets every project in a Northflank team inherits, merged per key.

Secrets every project in a Northflank team inherits, merged per key.

The connection

WhatThis provider
VendorNorthflank
Keynorthflank-global-secret
Availabilityavailable. You can connect it today.
Credential penv holdsnorthflank-token
Values read backno
Activationrestart-on-write

What it moves

DirectionWhat it does
exportWrites names and values from penv into the store.

Northflank returns no value once it holds one, so penv can write here and cannot read back.

When a written value goes live

restart-on-write. Writing a value restarts the workload.

What happens to a name that exists

DirectionPolicies you can pick
exportcreate_only, overwrite, overwrite_and_prune

How syncs work says what each one does.

How you connect

You paste a credential you already hold. penv seals it and never shows it again.

FieldLabelKindRequiredWhat it is
tokenAPI tokensecret, masked here and sealedyesAn API token with project:read, plus secret:write to export.

What a mapping asks for

Answered once per environment you map.

FieldLabelKindRequiredAdvancedWhat it is
secretIdGlobal secrettextyesnoThe global secret this environment maps onto. Its URL ends with the id.

Permissions it needs

penv probes for these when it verifies the connection.

PermissionDirectionsBlockingWithout it
project:readevery directionyespenv-cloud cannot confirm the token reaches this team.
secret:writeexportyesExport cannot write anything.