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Using Barbican for secret storage

Barbican is OpenStack's secret storage facility. In Breqwatr Cloud, Barbican is supported for the following purposes:

To manage secrets with Barbican, you will need the openstack command line interface (CLI), and its Barbican plugin. You can install them both with the following commands:

pip install python-openstackclient python-barbicanclient

On Debian/Ubuntu platforms, you may also install these utilities via their APT packages:

apt install python3-openstackclient python3-barbicanclient