A Credential Management Tool using Google Cloud KMS and Datastore

Description:

Software systems often need access to some shared credential. For example, your web application needs access to a database password or an API key for some third-party service.

Google CredStash is a very simple, easy to use credential management and distribution system that uses Google Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) for key storage, and Datastore for credential storage.

Prerequisites:

Required:

• python
• pip
• Google Cloud Platform

Optional:

• Google Cloud KMS
• Google Datastore

Content URLs:

• https://cloud.google.com/kms/
• https://cloud.google.com/datastore/

Link to slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dDvbYqJoEcK-n3KVGsOBnc0wymVM_TjOEP0_ZiJouxc/edit?usp=sharing

Outline:

1. Introduction
2. What problem does it solve?
3. Existing solutions
4. Why write this?
5. How did it help?
6. A brief introduction to Google KMS
7. A brief introduction to Google Datastore
8. The architecture of the proposed solution (will add a slide for this)
9. Limitation and future

Speaker Info:

Experienced across e-commerce, media publishing, personal finance, web analytics, digital advertising domains and acquiring knowledge on machine learning models and Deep Net techniques. A Technology Evangelist and a Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer.

Speaker Links:

• https://rajeshhegde.com/
• https://github.com/RajeshHegde/gcredstash
• https://medium.com/@rajeshhegde
• https://stackoverflow.com/users/2571060/rajesh-hegde