aws / aws/eks-anywhere

Remove credentials from hardware.csv

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area/providers/tinkerbell priority/p1 team/ce
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Description

In bare metal provider, the hardware.csv file contains the plain bmc username and password columns. Though being a temporary file to provision a cluster, this still raises security concern as the credential is in disk.

We need to find a way to handle the credential information in different way: either as env vars similar to vsphere providers, or a secret file (similar to snow credentials) which can be stored in another location than the hardware spec.

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Research direction

Start by locating how the bare metal provider reads hardware.csv and handles its BMC username and password. Compare the existing vsphere environment-variable approach and snow secret-file approach mentioned in the issue. Done means credentials are no longer stored in hardware.csv and cluster provisioning still receives them through a secure alternative.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
infrastructure, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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