Use Vault Secret Credentials

Describes using vault secret credentials, where the credentials secret (password) is stored as a secret in a vault. You can then use vault secret credentials to access cloud resources or to access other databases (use anywhere that username/password type credentials are required).

You can create vault secret credentials with secrets stored in any of the supported vaults:

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault

• Azure Key Vault

• AWS Secrets Manager

• GCP Secret Manager

For example, some possible uses cases for vault secret credentials:

• You can avoid duplicating secrets (passwords) when you access cloud resources from an Autonomous Database instance. In this case, you store secrets in a vault and Autonomous Database accesses the vault. This allows you to rotate secrets without updating the credentials you create to access cloud resources.

• You can use vault secret credentials with database links. In this case, you can create routines that access another database and you don't need to expose passwords in your code.

Note the following limitations for vault secret credentials:

• Operations that use Oracle Data Pump do not support vault secret credentials (for example impdp and expdp).

• Access for big data format files, such as Parquet, AVRO, or ORC with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Native URLs do not support vault secret credentials.

Topics

• Use Vault Secret Credentials with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault
  Describes using vault secret credentials, where the secret (password) is stored as a secret in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault.
• Use Vault Secret Credential with Azure Key Vault
  Describes using vault secret credentials, where the credential secret (password) is stored in Azure Key Vault.
• Use Vault Secret Credential with AWS Secrets Manager
  Describes using vault secret credentials, where the credential secret (password) is stored in AWS Secrets Manager.
• Use Vault Secret Credential with GCP Secret Manager
  Describes using vault secret credentials, where the credentials secret (password) are stored as a secret in GCP Secret Manager.
• Refresh Vault Secret Credentials
  Describes how vault secret credentials can be refreshed from the latest value in the vault.
• Update Vault Secret Credentials
  Describes the steps to update vault secret credential attributes.