Configure Secret Manager in Application Design Center
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Secret Manager is a secure and convenient storage system for API keys,
passwords, certificates, and other sensitive data. For more information, seeSecret Manager overview.
This document describes the connections and parameters you can configure when
using App Design Center to create a Secret Manager
secret. The configuration parameters are based on theterraform-google-secret-managerTerraform module.
Component connections
The following table includes the components that you can connect to
Secret Manager, and the resulting updates to your application and its
generated Terraform code.
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