About Fortanix

Fortanix is a data-first security company helping enterprises discover, assess, and remediate data exposure risks across hybrid multicloud environments. Fortanix offers an Azure DevOps custom extension task to retrieve the secrets.

About Fortanix Secret Management task

This extension helps at runtime of Azure DevOps pipeline execution to securely fetch the secrets from Fortanix DSM.

Usage

Fortanix DSM

1. Log in to Fortanix DSM at <Your_DSM_Service_URL>. For example, https://amer.smartkey.io.
2. Create or select an account.
3. Create a group.
4. Create an application(app) of type API key in the group.
5. Create a security object of type Secret and upload the secret.
6. Ensure to enable the EXPORT permission for the security object.
7. For more information, refer to Fortanix-DSM-with-azure-devops.

Azure DevOps pipeline

1. Create a pipeline.
2. Export FORTANIX_API_ENDPOINT, eg: amer.smartkey.io.
3. Export FORTANIX_API_KEY as a secret.
4. Configure the task:

   - task: Fortanix-Secret-Management@1
     inputs:
       FORTANIX_API_ENDPOINT: '$(FORTANIX_API_ENDPOINT)'
       FORTANIX_API_KEY: '$(FORTANIX_API_KEY)'
       FORTANIX_SECURITY_OBJECT_NAME: '<SECURITY_OBJECT_NAME>'
       FORTANIX_SECURITY_OBJECT: 'FORTANIX_SECURITY_OBJECT'
      ```