New install questions

[danielsollondon]

Hi, I am following the steps to install on KinD.

I run: porter credentials generate back-stack-cloud-creds \ --reference ghcr.io/back-stack/showcase-bundle:latest

Then I am asked for setting these values and have these questions:

How would you like to set credential "aws-credentials" Question: I only have access to Azure, if I leave this blank now I get an error running the install command, what should this be set to?

How would you like to set credential "kubeconfig" Question - in the doc it mentions leaving the kubeconfig empty, if I leave this blank now I get an error running the install command, what should this be set to?

How would you like to set credential "vault-token" Question - what vault token is this, is there something I need to create first?

Thanks!

[kurktchiev]

I admit the docs need to be more precise with your questions.

You technically do not need to pass in credentials if you do not want to. You would not be able to provision things in the cloud, but the stack will stand up outside of that. https://backstack.dev/install/#porter-bundle-info-settings

Yeah, this is something we need to improve a little bit. You can pass in nothing and, after creation, edit the credentials set to remove the kubeconfig section porter credentials edit.....

The vault token should be set to specific value to root. This is just the token used internally for Vault.

[kurktchiev]

yeah this is definetly a bit that we need to make the docs clearer on. So if you make a credential set that is created inside porter and stored, which is why I was saying you would want to post creation edit the credentials and remove the blocks for aws-credentials (or at least set them to value: nocreds-for-you-today), kubeconfig and vault.

So as an example my local credentials file looks like this:

schemaType: CredentialSet
 schemaVersion: 1.0.1
 namespace: default
 name: back-stack-cloud-creds
 credentials:
   - name: aws-credentials
      source:
        value: addlater
   - name: azure-credentials
      source:
        value: addlater
   - name: github-token
     source:
       value: addlater
   - name: vault-token
     source:
       value: root

[danielsollondon]

That worked - thank you @kurktchiev !