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[Feature Request] Support for Hashicorp Vault/refreshing credentials. #290

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kanuahs opened this issue Jul 18, 2019 · 1 comment
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kanuahs commented Jul 18, 2019

I want to run postgres exporter as a kubernetes pod. PostgresSQL usernames & passwords are generated by vault and expire after a certain amount of time.

I was planning on using a sidecar to fetch credentials and inject them into the exporter container as environment variables. However I'd like to avoid restarting the pod to use the updated credentials.

Possible fix:
On db connection failure, the exporter could refresh credentials and retry if a change is detected.

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The pod shouldn't need to be restarted, just the exporter. This is ultimately an issue of complexity - the exporter is fairly lightweight, and shouldn't have any problems being restarted.

I'd accept a PR which resolved this, but I don't use the system this way myself so I'm uncomfortable changing it.

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