[jira] [Created] (NIFI-11314) Load sensitive properties from files at startup

["Chris Sampson (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Chris Sampson created NIFI-11314:
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             Summary: Load sensitive properties from files at startup
                 Key: NIFI-11314
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-11314
             Project: Apache NiFi
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Chris Sampson


As part of https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/6995 for NIFI-7060 (abandoned), the idea of being able to provide sensitive values for properties at startup was introduced, e.g. the password for the NiFi Registry database could be provided in a file on the localhost.

This approach should be considered for NiFi components, particularly for use cases where configuration may otherwise be provided via environment variables and/or the nifi.properties file cannot easily be re-configured, e.g. when running as Docker Containers using the convenience Docker Images from Docker Hub.

Ability to provide such sensitive properties via file (and reference those files via environment variables) is something found in other well-known applications, e.g. Elasticsearch.



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