The local secrets manager is a secrets manager flavor which comes built-in with ZenML and uses the local filesystem to store secrets.

​
When to use it

The local secrets manager is built for early local development and should not be used it a production setting. It stores your secrets without encryption and only works in combination with the local orchestrator.

​
How to deploy it

The local secrets manager comes with ZenML and works without any additional setup.

​
How to use it

To use the local secrets manager, we can register it and use it in our active stack:

zenml secrets-manager register  --flavor=local 

# Add the secrets manager to the active stack
zenml stack update -x

You can now register, update or delete secrets using the CLI or fetch secret values inside your steps.

For more information and a full list of configurable attributes of the local secrets manager, check out the API Docs.