Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Promoting an Existing Secret Version to Current

Promote an pending version of a secret to current version in the OCI Vault service.

    1. Open the navigation menu, click Identity & Security, and then click Vault.
    2. Under List scope, select the compartment that contains the secret that you must promote to current version.
    3. On the Vaults page, click the name of the vault to open the its details page
    4. Under Resources, click Secrets, and then click the name of a secret to open its details page.
    5. Under Table Scope, click Versions.
    6. Find a secret version in pending state, click the Action menu and then select Promote to Current.
    7. Confirm the promotion by clicking Promote to Confirm.

      The version status is set as "Current" and is in active use.

  • Open a command prompt and run oci vault secret update to promote a secret version to current, active use:

    oci vault secret update --secret-id <target_secret_id> --current-version-number <target_secret_version_number>

    For example:

    
oci vault secret update --secret-id ocid1.vaultsecret.oc1.iad.exampleaz5qacpqahuecvbjqzql4qmpbrtd7pprafhivcfik6wuitexample --current-version-number 3

    For a complete list of parameters and values for CLI commands, see the CLI Command Reference.

  • This task cannot be performed using the API.