Generating passwords with Secret Manager using the CLI and GO

Once you have created a secret with Scaleway Secret Manager, you can send a request to generate a password for it. This will create a new version for your secret, in which your password will be generated and securely stored.

Generate a password with the Scaleway CLI

1. Run the following command to create a secret. Make sure you replace <project-ID> with the ID of the Project in which you want to create the secret.

   scw secret secret create project-id=<project-ID> name=test-passwordCopy

   An output similar to the following displays:

   ID            8aa046bd-5a52-477e-9d23-99df84735a82
   ProjectID     2e5ee9ae-6798-419c-a6ce-0e2bf979b78c
   Name          test-password
   Status        ready
   CreatedAt     now
   UpdatedAt     now
   Region        fr-par
   VersionCount  0
   Description   -Copy

   Copy the ID as you will need it for the next step.

2. Run the following command to generate the password for your newly-created secret. Make sure you replace <secret-ID> with the ID of your secret.

   scw secret version generate-password secret-id=<secret-ID> length=12Copy

   This generates a password of 12 characters. Your password is then stored in Secret Manager as a new version of your secret.

3. Run the following command to retrieve your newly-generated password:

   scw secret version access secret-id=<secret-ID> revision=latestCopy

   Your base64-encoded-password displays in the output.

Generate a password with the Scaleway GO SDK

The following code allows you to create a Scaleway account, a secret and to generate a password as a new version of that secret.

package main
import (
  "fmt"
  "github.com/scaleway/scaleway-sdk-go/scw"
  secret_manager "github.com/scaleway/scaleway-sdk-go/api/secret/v1alpha1"
)
func main() {
  // Create a Scaleway client
  client, err := scw.NewClient(
    // Get your organization ID at https://console.scaleway.com/organization/settings
    scw.WithDefaultOrganizationID("SCW_DEFAULT_ORGANIZATION_ID"),
    // Get your credentials at https://console.scaleway.com/iam/api-keys
    scw.WithAuth("SCW_ACCESS_KEY", "SCW_SECRET_KEY"),
    // Get more about our availability zones at https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/console/my-account/reference-content/products-availability/
    scw.WithDefaultRegion("SCW_REGION"),
  )
  if err != nil {
    panic(err)
  }
  api := secret_manager.NewAPI(client)
  // Create the secret
  secret, err := api.CreateSecret(&secret_manager.CreateSecretRequest{
    ProjectID: "your project ID",
    Name:      "test-password"
  })
  if err != nil {
    panic(err)
  }
  // Generate a password of length 12 and store it as a new version
  _, err := api.GeneratePassword(&secret_manager.GeneratePasswordRequest{
    SecretID: secret.ID,
    Length:   12,
  })
  if err != nil {
    panic(err)
  }
  // Get the generated password
  password, err := api.AccessSecretVersion(&secret_manager.AccessSecretVersionRequest{
    SecretID: secret.ID,
    Revision: "latest",
  })
  if err != nil {
    panic(err)
  }
  fmt.Println(password)
}Copy