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Allow secretKey rotations

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
kubernetes, rust

Research direction

Start by reading the reconciliation flow that manages SECRET_KEY and the documented superset re-encrypt-secrets command. Trace how PREVIOUS_SECRET_KEY and the superset_credentials secret are currently handled during reconciliation. Done should include a decided and implemented rotation workflow that re-encrypts secrets safely without requiring manual reconciliation pauses.

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Description

type/feature-new

Current Situation

According to superset docs on secretKeys you should be able to rotate keys to encrypt your database and session cookies.

Currently you'd need to manually add PREVIOUS_SECRET_KEY and add the new SECRET_KEY env variable ( while reconciliation paused ) and run superset re-encrypt-secrets on your own in pod. When succeeded, you can unpause reconciliation and add the new SECRET_KEY to your superset_credentials secret.

Proposal

The operator should be able at reconciliation to decide weather to re-encrypt. Ideally, we can automatically rotate this key.

Dominant language
Rust
Stars
35
Forks
4
Avg merge
12h 20m
Merged PRs (30d)
10

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