Generally, we expect you to render the "final" Prometheus configuration based on your own requirements. That means, don't check in the fixed Prometheus config, but check in a *template* that your local job can then combine with the decrypted secret.
/MR On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 10:06 PM Tony A. <[email protected]> wrote: > New prometheus admin here, so please bear with me if I'm asking a silly > question here. > > I'm wondering if it's possible to read in parameters from an external file > similar to the password_file parameter for basic auth. > > We have a team wanting to monitor an endpoint exposed by the confluence > plugin and to authenticate against that endpoint, a 'token' parameter is > sent. The configuration files for our Prometheus installation are in a git > repository to which multiple contributors have access. For the > password_file parameter, the password file is encrypted in github via > git-secret, and only decrypted when the prometheus server runs a local job > that does a git pull on the repo followed by unmasking the encrypted > credential files. Is it possible to store a parameter (like the confluence > token) in a file so that it can be encrypted in github? If not - are there > any recommendations for protecting the token? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/bd9f1973-03d1-43b4-9c6d-78ebc22ea78f%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/bd9f1973-03d1-43b4-9c6d-78ebc22ea78f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CAMV%3D_gaOXyCvhXLex8bmQk%3DSt30WLDB%3DVO1ViAOF6akZxcyg2g%40mail.gmail.com.
