Enable Password Encryption for Privacera Services

This topic covers how you can enable encryption of secrets for Privacera services such as Privacera Portal, Privacera Dataserver, Privacera Ranger, Ranger Usersync, Privacera Discovery, Ranger KMS, Crypto, PEG, and Privacera PolicySync. The passwords will be stored safely in keystores, instead of being exposed in plaintext.

By default, all the sensitive data of the Privacera services are encrypted,

Configuration

1. Run the following command.

   cd ~/privacera/privacera-manager
   cp config/sample-vars/vars.encrypt.secrets.yml config/custom-vars/
   vi config/custom-vars/vars.encrypt.secrets.yml
   

2. In this file set values for the following:

   Enter a password for the keystore that will hold all the secrets.  e.g. Str0ngP@ssw0rd

   GLOBAL_DEFAULT_SECRETS_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD: "<PLEASE_CHANGE>"
   

   If you want to encrypt data of a Privacera service, you can enter the name of the property.

   Examples

   To encrypt properties used by Privacera Portal:

   PORTAL_ADD_ENCRYPT_PROPS_LIST:
   - PRIVACERA_PORTAL_DATASOURCE_URL
   - PRIVACERA_PORTAL_DATASOURCE_USERNAME
   

   To encrypt properties used by Dataserver:

   DATASERVER_ADD_ENCRYPT_PROPS_LIST:
   - DATASERVER_MAC_ALGORITHM
   

   To encrypt properties used by Encryption:

   #Additional properties to be encrypted for Crypto
   CRYPTO_ENCRYPT_PROPS_LIST:
   - CRYPTO_PORTAL_DATABRICKS_USER_PASSWORD
   

3. Run the following command.

   ./privacera-manager.sh update
   

   For a Kubernetes configuration, you also need to run the following command:

   ./privacera-manager.sh restart
   

Validation

To check keystores generated for the respective services.

ls ~/privacera/privacera-manager/config/keystores

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Last update: July 23, 2021