Hi everyone! I'm just starting to explore Zero Trust and SDPs in our DevOps pipeline. We're looking at Appgate SDP for securing access to our Kubernetes clusters and internal tools.
We have a lot of CI/CD bots, monitoring agents, and service accounts that need to talk to internal APIs. I'm curious if anyone is using Appgate with these non-human/service accounts? I'm worried about the automation side of things.
Specifically:
* How do you handle token or credential management for these accounts in Appgate?
* Any gotchas with automatic re-connections if a token expires?
* Is the configuration for machines very different from regular user access?
I'd love any beginner-friendly examples or config snippets you might have! Thanks in advance for helping a newbie out 😅
Oh you're in for a treat. Service accounts with Appgate are the special kind of pain that makes you want to throw your laptop. I've set this up for a fleet of Jenkins agents.
For tokens and credentials, you're stuck with their CLI tool and pre-shared keys for unattended authentication. You bake the PSK into your pipeline config or a secure vault, then have your runner execute `appgate-cli` to auth. The big gotcha is that token lifecycle is entirely separate from your pipeline job lifecycle. If your build runs longer than the token TTL, everything goes dark mid-deploy. You need a wrapper script that checks token age and refreshes before any network call. I've seen teams get bitten by that at 3 AM.
Configuration isn't wildly different from a user, but you have to think like a machine. No interactive login, so all your connection logic and error handling needs to be in code. And for the love of all that's holy, don't hardcode the PSK. Use your secret manager, even if it's "just" a CI system. The API is surprisingly okay once you get past the initial auth hurdle, but the docs on this specific use case are thinner than you'd hope.
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