Does anyone know is it possible to pass a secret value as an environment variable in elastic beanstalk? The alternative obviously is to use the sdk in our codebase but I want to explore the environment variable approach first
Cheers Damien
Unfortunately, EB doesn't support secrets at this point, this might be added down the road. You can use them in your environment variables as the documentation suggests but they will appear in plain text in the console. Another, and IMO better, approach would be to use ebextensions, and use AWS CLI commands to grab secrets from the secrets manager, which needs some set up (e.g. having AWS CLI installed and having your secrets stored in SM). You can set these as environment variables in the same eb configuration. Hope this helps!