External Secrets in pipelines

[Max_Expeditions]

Hello community. I have a question regarding the External Secrets. I setup the connection to our AWS Secrets Manager and successfully loaded secrets values. Based on the docs, I can now use {{ $secrets.awsSecretsManager.secret_name }}. However, it doesn’t work in our pipelines - I always get null. Is it even allowed to be used in pipelines?

Our use case is we want to keep username/password for the external service in our secrets rather than in a variable. One of the nodes in the pipeline performs authorization in that external service.

[barn4k]

hello @Max_Expeditions

The docs are telling you that you can use it in the credentials. So I suppose you can’t use them directly in the nodes

[Max_Expeditions]

Got it. Bummer. Probably will test an environment variable next.