Since Amazon and Microsoft are competitors in cloud providers market, there are always nuances when you try to integrate pieces from different tech stacks. Let’s dive into how to read AWS SMM parameters in .Net Core 3 application.
AWS Parameter Store is the part of AWS Systems Manager. It provides secure storage for parameters and secrets. And grant resilient availability. Let’s dive into it and see how to use it for micro-service platform.
The lure to keep connection string to the database in source code is one of the common mistakes. Keep secrets in source code even if sensitive data is encrypted that is a well-known antipattern. It can lead to issues like data breach by a malicious actor, losing or corrupting data by a non-authorised engineer with lack of knowledge. Passwords, tokens, keys, connection strings, and other sensitive information which are used by applications should be treated as secrets. There are several tools for AWS cloud that allows managing secrets for microservice oriented solutions.
Microservice architecture states for one service has one database. However, the database administrator would like to have one credential to access multiple databases. Let’s take a look at how we can solve this with PostgreSQL roles.
