Autonomous Database#

To connect to Autonomous Database you need the following:

The ADBSecretKeeper class saves the ADB credentials to the OCI Vault service.

See API Documentation for more details

Save Credentials#

ADBSecretKeeper#

The ADBSecretKeeper constructor has the following parameters:

  • compartment_id (str): OCID of the compartment where the vault is located. This defaults to the compartment of the notebook session when used in a Data Science notebook session.

  • key_id (str): OCID of the master key used for encrypting the secret.

  • password (str): The password of the database.

  • service_name (str): Set the service name of the database.

  • user_name (str): The user name to be stored.

  • vault_id (str): OCID of the vault.

  • wallet_location (str): Path to the wallet ZIP file.

Save#

The ADBSecretKeeper.save API serializes and stores the credentials to Vault using the following parameters:

  • defined_tags (dict, optional): Default None. Save the tags under predefined tags in the OCI Console.

  • description (str): Description of the secret when saved in Vault.

  • freeform_tags (dict, optional): Default None. Free form tags to use for saving the secret in the OCI Console.

  • name (str): Name of the secret when saved in Vault.

  • save_wallet (bool, optional): Default False. If set to True, then the wallet file is serialized.

When stored without the wallet information, the secret content has following information:

  • password

  • service_name

  • user_name

To store wallet file content, set save_wallet to True. The wallet content is stored by extracting all the files from the wallet ZIP file, and then each file is stored in the vault as a secret. The list of OCIDs corresponding to each file along with username, password, and service name is stored in a separate secret. The secret corresponding to each file content has following information:

  • filename

  • content of the file

A meta secret is created to save the username, password, service name, and the secret ids of the files within the wallet file. It has following attributes:

  • user_name

  • password

  • wallet_file_name

  • wallet_secret_ids

The wallet file is reconstructed when ADBSecretKeeper.load_secret is called using the OCID of the meta secret.

Examples#

Without the Wallet File#

import ads
ads.set_auth('resource_principal') # If using resource principal authentication
from ads.secrets.adb import ADBSecretKeeper

connection_parameters={
    "user_name":"admin",
    "password":"<your_password>",
    "service_name":"service_high",
    "wallet_location":"/home/datascience/Wallet_--------.zip"
}

ocid_vault = "ocid1.vault..<unique_ID>"
ocid_master_key = "ocid1.key..<unique_ID>"
ocid_mycompartment = "ocid1.compartment..<unique_ID>"

adw_keeper = ADBSecretKeeper(vault_id=ocid_vault,
                            key_id=ocid_master_key,
                            compartment_id=ocid_mycompartment,
                            **connection_parameters)

# Store the credentials without storing the wallet file
adw_keeper.save("adw_employee_att2", "My DB credentials", freeform_tags={"schema":"emp"})
print(adw_keeper.secret_id)

'ocid1.vaultsecret..<unique_ID>'

With the Wallet File#

import ads
ads.set_auth('resource_principal') # If using resource principal authentication
from ads.secrets.adb import ADBSecretKeeper

connection_parameters={
    "user_name":"admin",
    "password":"<your_password>",
    "service_name":"service_high",
    "wallet_location":"/home/datascience/Wallet_--------.zip"
}

ocid_vault = "ocid1.vault..<unique_ID>"
ocid_master_key = "ocid1.key..<unique_ID>"
ocid_mycompartment = "ocid1.compartment..<unique_ID>"

adw_keeper = ADBSecretKeeper(vault_id=ocid_vault,
                            key_id=ocid_master_key,
                            compartment_id=ocid_mycompartment,
                            **connection_parameters)

# Set `save_wallet`=True to save wallet file

adw_keeper.save("adw_employee_att2",
    "My DB credentials",
    freeform_tags={"schema":"emp"},
    save_wallet=True
)

print(adw_keeper.secret_id)

'ocid1.vaultsecret..<unique_ID>'

You can save the vault details in a file for later reference or using it within your code using export_vault_details API calls. The API currently enables you to export the information as a YAML file or a JSON file.

adw_keeper.export_vault_details("my_db_vault_info.json", format="json")

To save as a YAML file:

adw_keeper.export_vault_details("my_db_vault_info.yaml", format="yaml")

Load Credentials#

Load#

The ADBSecretKeeper.load_secret API deserializes and loads the credentials from Vault. You could use this API in one of the following ways:

Using a with Statement#

with ADBSecretKeeper.load_secret('ocid1.vaultsecret..<unique_ID>') as adwsecret:
    print(adwsecret['user_name'])

This approach is preferred as the secrets are only available within the code block and it reduces the risk that the variable will be leaked.

Without using a with Statement#

adwsecretobj = ADBSecretKeeper.load_secret('ocid1.vaultsecret..<unique_ID>')
adwsecret = adwsecretobj.to_dict()
print(adwsecret['user_name'])

The .load_secret() method has the following parameters:

  • auth: Provide overriding authorization information if the authorization information is different from the ads.set_auth setting.

  • export_env: Default is False. If set to True, the credentials are exported as environment variable when used with the with operator.

  • export_prefix: The default name for environment variable is user_name, password, service_name, and wallet_location. You can add a prefix to avoid name collision

  • format: Optional. If source is a file, then this value must be json or yaml depending on the file format.

  • source: Either the file that was exported from export_vault_details or the OCID of the secret

  • wallet_dir: Optional. Directory path where the wallet zip file will be saved after the contents are retrieved from Vault. If wallet content is not available in the provided secret OCID, this attribute is ignored.

  • wallet_location: Optional. Path to the local wallet zip file. If vault secret does not have wallet file content, set this variable so that it will be available in the exported credential. If provided, this path takes precedence over the wallet file information in the secret.

If the wallet file was saved in the vault, then the ZIP file of the same name is created by the .load_secret() method. By default the ZIP file is created in the working directory. To update the location, you can set the directory path with wallet_dir.

Examples#

Using a with Statement#

import ads
ads.set_auth('resource_principal') # If using resource principal authentication
from ads.secrets.adb import ADBSecretKeeper

with ADBSecretKeeper.load_secret(
            "ocid1.vaultsecret..<unique_ID>"
        ) as adw_creds2:
    print (adw_creds2["user_name"]) # Prints the user name

print (adw_creds2["user_name"]) # Prints nothing. The credentials are cleared from the dictionary outside the ``with`` block

Export to Environment Variables Using a with Statement#

To expose credentials as an environment variable, set export_env=True. The following keys are exported:

Secret attribute

Environment Variable Name

user_name

user_name

password

password

service_name

service_name

wallet_location

wallet_location

import os
import ads

ads.set_auth('resource_principal') # If using resource principal authentication
from ads.secrets.adb import ADBSecretKeeper

with ADBSecretKeeper.load_secret(
            "ocid1.vaultsecret..<unique_ID>",
            export_env=True
        ):
    print(os.environ.get("user_name")) # Prints the user name

print(os.environ.get("user_name")) # Prints nothing. The credentials are cleared from the dictionary outside the ``with`` block

You can avoid name collisions by setting a prefix string using export_prefix along with export_env=True. For example, if you set the prefix to myprocess, then the exported keys are:

Secret attribute

Environment Variable Name

user_name

myprocess.user_name

password

myprocess.password

service_name

myprocess.service_name

wallet_location

myprocess.wallet_location

import os
import ads

ads.set_auth('resource_principal') # If using resource principal authentication
from ads.secrets.adb import ADBSecretKeeper

with ADBSecretKeeper.load_secret(
            "ocid1.vaultsecret..<unique_ID>",
            export_env=True,
            export_prefix="myprocess"
        ):
    print(os.environ.get("myprocess.user_name")) # Prints the user name

print(os.environ.get("myprocess.user_name")) # Prints nothing. The credentials are cleared from the dictionary outside the ``with`` block

Wallet File Location#

You can set wallet file location when wallet file is not part of the stored vault secret. To specify a local wallet ZIP file, set the path to the ZIP file with wallet_location:

import ads
ads.set_auth('resource_principal') # If using resource principal authentication
from ads.secrets.adb import ADBSecretKeeper

with ADBSecretKeeper.load_secret(
            "ocid1.vaultsecret..<unique_ID>",
            wallet_location="path/to/my/local/wallet.zip"
        ) as adw_creds2:
    print (adw_creds2["wallet_location"]) # Prints `path/to/my/local/wallet.zip`

print (adw_creds2["wallet_location"]) # Prints nothing. The credentials are cleared from the dictionary outside the ``with`` block