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Use external secrets for license values

Kubernetes external secrets enable Kubernetes resources to use external data stores securely. You can use Kubernetes-based external secrets for Harness Self-Managed Enterprise Edition license values in your Helm charts.

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Contact Harness Support to get your Harness Self-Managed Enterprise Edition license files.

The following values are available in global.license.secrets.kubernetesSecrets.

  • secretName: Name of the Kubernetes secrets containing Harness license keys

  • keys.CG_LICENSE: Name of the secret key containing a FirstGen License

  • keys.NG_LICENSE: Name of the secret key containing a NextGen License

       global:
         license:
           cg: ''
           ng: ''
           secrets:
             kubernetesSecrets:
               - secretName: ""
                 keys:
                   CG_LICENSE: ""
                   NG_LICENSE: ""

Configure an external secret as a Harness license value​

To configure a Kubernetes-based external secret as a a NextGen Harness license value, do the following:

  1. Create a Kubernetes secret that includes your NextGen Harness license.

  2. Update your override.yaml file to include the following.

          global:
            license:
              secrets:
                kubernetesSecrets:
                  - secretName: "harness-license"
                    keys:
                      NG_LICENSE: "ng"