Placeholders are configurable entries in your application that will be set to an actual value at deployment time. This makes the deployment package environment-independent and reusable. At deployment time, you can provide values for placeholders manually or they can be resolved from dictionaries that are assigned to the target environment.
When importing a package, Deploy scans the artifacts contained in the package for placeholders that need to be resolved during a deployment. You can turn off placeholder scanning using one of the following methods described in this topic.
Your development organization may choose to integrate with an external secrets management tool to support the secure management of passwords, keys, certificates and other secrets. While you can choose to manage sensitive key/value pairs for environment-specific information using internal encrypted dictionaries, Deploy also supports integration with the CyberArk Conjur secrets management tool to manage and inject secrets into Deploy. The API-based integration with Conjur enables you to define, manage, and use Conjur as an external data source for secret storage. This API will support future integrations with other secrets management tools.
Your development organization may choose to integrate with an external secrets management tool to support the secure management of passwords, keys, certificates and other secrets. While you can choose to manage sensitive key/value pairs for environment-specific information using internal encrypted dictionaries, Deploy also supports integration with the HashiCorp Vault secrets management tool to manage and inject secrets into Deploy. The API-based integration with Vault enables you to define, manage, and use Vault as an external data source for secret storage. This API will support future integrations with other secrets management tools.
For secrets and password fields used with certain CI's, you can establish a simple lookup provider that will be used to look up a value based on a lookup provider key that you specify. You can use the simple lookup provider to reference and resolve a key/value pair stored in Deploy (as opposed to an external secrets management tool such as HashiCorp Vault or CyberArk Conjur).
When you update a deployed application, Deploy resolves the properties for the deployeds in the application in the same way that it does for the initial deployment of the application. This means:
You can use placeholders for configuration item (CI) properties that will be replaced with values during provisioning. Use this to create provisioning packages that are environment-independent and reusable. For more information, see Provisioning through Deploy.
Placeholders are configurable entries in your application that will be set to an actual value at deployment time. This allows the deployment package to be environment-independent and reusable. At deployment time, you can provide values for placeholders manually or they can be resolved from dictionaries that are assigned to the target environment.