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Rose Zhan requested to merge rosezhan15-master-patch-19d6 into master

What does this MR do and why?

The following updates have been made in this merge request. Here is the link to the using external secrets in CI doc. Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions on these changes.

  • Added additional information to the VAULT_NAMESPACE variable section. A namespace is required when using HCP Vault in order to authenticate with HCP Vault.
  • Added bound_audiences as part of the vault role creation since bound_audience is a required parameter for jwt authentication. "bound_audiences": "https://vault.example.com"
  • The aud in the secret job should be pointing to the VAULT URL not GITLAB
job_using_vault:
  id_tokens:
    VAULT_ID_TOKEN:
      aud: https://vault.example.com # currently, our doc uses https://gitlab.com as the audience
  secrets:
    DATABASE_PASSWORD:
      vault: production/db/password@ops  # translates to secret `ops/data/production/db`, field `password`
      token: $VAULT_ID_TOKEN

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