SecretManagement and SecretStore Release Candidates

Sydney Smith

January 7th, 20214 0

The SecretManagement and SecretStore release candidate (RC) modules are now available on the PowerShell Gallery.

The SecretManagement module helps users manage secrets by providing a common set of cmdlets to interface with secrets across vaults. This module supports an extensible model where local and remote vaults can be registered and unregistered for use in accessing and retrieving secrets. SecretStore is a cross-platform local extension vault for use with SecretManagement. We designed this vault as a best attempt at creating a vault that is available where PowerShell is, usable in popular PowerShell scenarios (like automation and remoting) and utilizes common security practices.

For more information on these modules check out these previous blog posts:

Before installing these modules, please uninstall the current preview versions of the modules and restart your PowerShell session.

To install these updates run the following commands:

Uninstall-Module Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretManagement -Force 
Uninstall-Module Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretStore -Force 
# Restart your PowerShell session 
Install-Module -Name Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretManagement -Repository PSGallery 
Install-Module -Name Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretStore -Repository PSGallery 
Register-SecretVault -Name SecretStore -ModuleName Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretStore -DefaultVault -AllowClobber

SecretManagement Updates

  • Register-SecretVault no longer emits error when strict language mode is set
  • Set-DefaultVault cmdlet has been renamed to Set-SecretVaultDefault

General Availability (GA)

This is a “go live” release, which means that we feel that this RC is feature complete and of GA quality. If no bugs are identified through this release, we will increment the versioning and declare the modules as GA in early February. If any high-risk bugs are identified we will continue to release RCs until the quality bar is met for a GA release.

The Extension Vault Ecosystem

To find other SecretManagement extension vault modules, search the PowerShell Gallery for the “SecretManagement” tag. Some community vault extensions that are available:

Thank you to everyone who has created vaults thus far!

Feedback and Support

Community feedback has been essential to the iterative development of these modules. Thank you to everyone who has contributed issues, and feedback thus far! To file issues or get support for the SecretManagement interface or vault development experience please use the SecretManagement repository. For issues which pertain specifically to the SecretStore and its cmdlet interface please use the SecretStore repository.

Sydney Smith

PowerShell Team

 

Sydney Smith PM, PowerShell