Microsoft SecretManagement Preview 3

Η Microsoft κυκλοφόρησε το νέο SecretManagement Preview 3 ένα εργαλείο για ενέργειες μέσω του του PowerShell και της γραμμής εντολών shell για να βοηθήσει τους προγραμματιστές να διαχειριστούν τα συστήματά τους με ένα σύνολο cmdlets.

Η έκδοση SecretManagement Preview 3 ακολουθεί την δεύτερη προεπισκόπηση που κυκλοφόρησε η Microsoft τον Μάρτιο και μια πρώτη προεπισκόπηση τον Φεβρουάριο. Το εργαλείο έχει σχεδιαστεί για να βοηθά τους χρήστες να διαχειρίζονται με ασφάλεια τα μυστικά τους σε ετερογενή περιβάλλοντα cloud.

However, the third preview of the SecretManagement module contains changes that may corrupt the first installation, so users of previous previews should remove any "secrets" they have saved before the update.

SecretManagement helps users store and retrieve "secrets" locally in an embedded treasury of an operating system, such as Windows Credential Manager.

"SecretManagement is valuable in heterogeneous environments where you may want to separate treasury features from a common script that needs secrets." explains Sydney Smith, Program Manager, Microsoft PowerShell Team.

"SecretManagement is also a feature that allows users to simplify their interactions with various vaults, they only need to learn a set of cmdlets."

In this preview, Microsoft has separated the SecretManagement module from a built-in default vault and had it in its design. It also separates the interface from accessing secrets and entering vaults from any vault application.

Paul Higinbotham, Senior Software Engineer on the PowerShell Team, explains that since release of the first alpha of SecretManagement became "clear that the original vision and design had some drawbacks".

One problem with the previous alpha version was that it depended directly on Windows Credential Manager, but to extend the application to other platforms they had to find a corresponding local treasury.

According to Microsoft, this treasury is "configurable and works on all supported PowerShell platforms - Windows, Linux and macOS".

https://devblogs.microsoft.com