Rotating Blob Storage Credentials

How blob storage credential rotation works for Process Mining in Automation Suite, including the Kubernetes secrets that must be updated.

Introduction

To rotate the blob storage credentials for Process Mining in Automation Suite an administrator will need to have access to the Kubernetes cluster secrets using either kubectl, lens, or another tool. The stored secrets detailed below must be updated with the new credentials, and the the pods for Airflow and Process Mining need to be restarted to make sure all pods for these service receive the new credentials.

Note:

The storage credentials need to be updated in both the UiPath namespace and the Airflow namespace.

Note:

The stored secret values are base 64 encoded. If using kubectl you will need to encode the values before updating them in the cluster. If using Lens (k8slens) then the Lens tooling can do the decode/encode automatically.

Examples

The following example shows how to update secrets with kubectl:

kubectl patch secret processmining-external-storage-secret -n uipath -p "{\"data\":{\"ACCOUNTKEY\":\"<new_key_b64>\"}}"

Ceph Secrets

UiPath Namespace

• processmining-service-rook-ceph-secret.OBJECT_STORAGE_ACCESSKEY
• processmining-service-rook-ceph-secret.OBJECT_STORAGE_SECRETKEY

Airflow Namespace

• airflow-rook-ceph-secret.OBJECT_STORAGE_ACCESSKEY
• airflow-rook-ceph-secret.OBJECT_STORAGE_SECRETKEY
• processmining-service-rook-ceph-secret.OBJECT_STORAGE_ACCESSKEY
• processmining-service-rook-ceph-secret.OBJECT_STORAGE_SECRETKEY
• ceph-object-store-secret.OBJECT_STORAGE_ACCESSKEY
• ceph-object-store-secret.OBJECT_STORAGE_SECRETKEY

Minio Secrets

UiPath Namespace

• processmining-external-storage-secret.ACCESSKEY
• processmining-external-storage-secret.SECRETKEY

Airflow NameSpace

• processmining-external-storage-secret.ACCESSKEY
• processmining-external-storage-secret.SECRETKEY
• processmining-external-storage-secret.connection

S3 Secrets

UiPath Namespace

• processmining-external-storage-secret.ACCESSKEY
• processmining-external-storage-secret.SECRETKEY

Airflow NameSpace

• processmining-external-storage-secret.ACCESSKEY
• processmining-external-storage-secret.SECRETKEY
• processmining-external-storage-secret.connection

Azure Secrets

UiPath Namespace

• processmining-external-storage-secret.ACCOUNTNAME
• processmining-external-storage-secret.ACCOUNTKEY

Airflow Namespace

• processmining-external-storage-secret.ACCOUNTNAME
• processmining-external-storage-secret.ACCOUNTKEY
• processmining-external-storage-secret.connection

Note:

Azure connection string is URL encoded; the string will need to be decoded, have the access key updated, then re-encoded.

urlencode -d "wasb%3A%2F%2Fazureuser%40%3Fextra__wasb__connection_string%3DDefaultEndpointsProtocol%3Dhttps%3BEndpointSuffix%3Dcore.windows.net%3BAccountName%3Dazureuser%3BAccountKey%3DACCOUNT_KEY%3BBlobEndpoint%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fexample.blob.core.windows.net%2F%3BFileEndpoint%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fexample.file.core.windows.net%2F%3BQueueEndpoint%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fexample.queue.core.windows.net%2F%3BTableEndpoint%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fexample.table.core.windows.net%2F%26extra__wasb__sas_token%3D%26extra__wasb__shared_access_key%3D%26extra__wasb__tenant_id%3D"
urlencode "wasb://azureuser@?extra__wasb__connection_string=DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;EndpointSuffix=core.windows.net;AccountName=azureuser;AccountKey=ACCOUNT_KEY;BlobEndpoint=https://example.blob.core.windows.net/;FileEndpoint=https://example.file.core.windows.net/;QueueEndpoint=https://example.queue.core.windows.net/;TableEndpoint=https://example.table.core.windows.net/&extra__wasb__sas_token=&extra__wasb__shared_access_key=&extra__wasb__tenant_id="