CreateSecret Method

Creates a new secret.

Syntax

amazonsecrets.createSecret(secretName, description, [callback])

Callback

The 'callback' parameter specifies a function which will be called when the operation completes (or an error is encountered). If the 'callback' parameter is not specified, then the method will block and will not return until the operation completes (or an error is encountered).

The callback for this method is defined as:

function(err, data){ }

'err' is the error that occurred. If there was no error, then 'err' is 'null'.

'data' is the value returned by the method.

'err' has 2 properties which hold detailed information:

err.code
err.message

Remarks

This method creates a new secret with the given SecretName. The secret data is taken from the specified LocalFile or the SecretData or SecretString property; it may be up to 65536 bytes in length. The Id of the initial secret version is returned.

The value passed for SecretName may be up to 512 characters long, and must consist solely of ASCII letters, digits, and the following characters: /_+=.@-.

The Description parameter is optional; it can be any string up to 2048 characters long.

If desired, the KMSKeyId configuration setting can be set before calling this method to specify the Amazon KMS CMK (customer master key) to use to encrypt the secret (by default, an AWS-managed one is used).