Local file (for Development)

This Dapr secret store component reads plain text JSON from a given file and does not use authentication.

Component format

To setup local file based secret store create a component of type secretstores.local.file. Create a file with the following content in your ./components directory:

apiVersion: dapr.io/v1alpha1
kind: Component
metadata:
  name: local-secret-store
spec:
  type: secretstores.local.file
  version: v1
  metadata:
  - name: secretsFile
    value: [path to the JSON file]
  - name: nestedSeparator
    value: ":"
  - name: multiValued
    value: "false"

Spec metadata fields

Setup JSON file to hold the secrets

Given the following JSON loaded from secretsFile:

{
    "redisPassword": "your redis password",
    "connectionStrings": {
        "sql": "your sql connection string",
        "mysql": "your mysql connection string"
    }
}

If multiValued is "false", the store will load the file and create a map with the following key value pairs:

Use the flattened key (connectionStrings:sql) to access the secret. The following JSON map returned:

{
  "connectionStrings:sql": "your sql connection string"
}

If multiValued is "true", you would instead use the top level key. In this example, connectionStrings would return the following map:

{
  "sql": "your sql connection string",
  "mysql": "your mysql connection string"
}

Nested structures after the top level will be flattened. In this example, connectionStrings would return the following map:

JSON from secretsFile:

{
    "redisPassword": "your redis password",
    "connectionStrings": {
        "mysql": {
          "username": "your mysql username",
          "password": "your mysql password"
        }
    }
}

Response:

{
  "mysql:username": "your mysql username",
  "mysql:password": "your mysql password"
}

This is useful in order to mimic secret stores like Vault or Kubernetes that return multiple key/value pairs per secret key.

Related links

• Secrets building block
• How-To: Retrieve a secret
• How-To: Reference secrets in Dapr components
• Secrets API reference