How To Create A Secret

Introduction

A Secret is a key-value pair used to store encrypted information accessible only to the owner of the secret. Also if you wish to, you can share the same secret API key with all the members of a Project.

UI

Step 1: Navigate to Secrets

In the Account Settings page you can find the Secrets section showing a list of all secrets.

List of secrets

Step 2: Create a Secret

Click New Secret to bring up the dialog for secret creation. Enter a name for the secret to be used for lookup, and the secret value.

If the secret should be private to this user, select Private, to share the secret with all members of a project select Project and enter the project name.

Create new secret dialog

Step 3: Secret created

Click New Secret to bring up the dialog for secret creation. Enter a name for the secret to be used for lookup, and the secret value.

If the secret should be private to this user, select Private, to share the secret with all members of a project select Project and enter the project name.

Secret is now created

Code

Step 1: Get secrets API

import hopsworks

connection = hopsworks.connection()

secrets_api = connection.get_secrets_api()

Step 2: Create secret

secret = secrets_api.create_secret("my_secret", "Fk3MoPlQXCQvPo")

API Reference

Secrets

Conclusion

In this guide you learned how to create a secret.