[GitHub] [airflow] ashb commented on a change in pull request #15013: Enable Connection creation from Vault parameters

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ashb commented on a change in pull request #15013:
URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/15013#discussion_r692496427



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File path: docs/apache-airflow-providers-hashicorp/secrets-backends/hashicorp-vault.rst
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@@ -100,6 +100,46 @@ Verify that you can get the secret from ``vault``:
 The value of the Vault key must be the :ref:`connection URI representation <generating_connection_uri>`
 of the connection object to get connection.
 
+Storing and Retrieving Connections using Connection class representation
+""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+
+If you have set ``connections_path`` as ``connections`` and ``mount_point`` as ``airflow``, then for a connection id of
+``smtp_default``, you would want to store your secret as:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    vault kv put airflow/connections/smtp_default conn_type=smtps login=user password=host host=relay.example.com port=465
+
+Note that the ``Keys`` are parameters of the ``Connection`` class and the ``Value`` their argument.
+
+You can make a ``mount_point`` for ``airflow`` as follows:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    vault secrets enable -path=airflow -version=2 kv

Review comment:
       Do we need to say this again? Maybe it should be moved to a "setup" section in this doc instead




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