Initial Github Setup

To use Github for your config source, read on.

1. Create a new private repository in Github. Let’s call it KeydraConfiguration.

2. Clone your new repo locally. Click the Clone button in your new repo, and paste into your terminal.

    git clone git@github.com:<your Github org or username>/keydraconfiguration.git
    cd keydraconfiguration

1. From your repository in your browser, click Settings from your profile avatar in the top right corner.

2. Choose Developer settings > Personal access tokens > Generate new token.

3. Give the token a name, all repo permissions, then click Generate token.

4. You’ll be shown a password, which you’ll only see once! In another tab, login to the AWS Console and navigate to the Secrets Manager service.

5. Click the orange Store a new secret button.

6. Choose a secret type of Other type of secrets, and add a plaintext secret as follows (substituting your details).

    {
    "password": "<the token from step 4>",
    "username": "<your github username>"
    }

7. You can leave encryption settings as default, or update to your needs. Click Next.

8. Call your secret keydra/github.

9. Auto rotation is not required (Keydra will do this), so just click Next on the next screen, then Store on the one after.