Managing Secrets in Colab

To properly manage (hide) a secret, e.g. an API key, in colab, one can use GCP’s Secret Manager. Here are some instructions, borrowed from this stackoverflow answer:

1. Enable “Secret Manager API” for the project on market place: https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/google/secretmanager.googleapis.com
2. Create a secret in “Secret Manager”: https://console.cloud.google.com/security/secret-manager
3. Copy the resource name from the console
4. Access the resource key using the python script below

   !pip install google-cloud-secret-manager
   
   from google.cloud import secretmanager
   client = secretmanager.SecretManagerServiceClient()
   resource_name = "xxxxxxx"  # String copied from above
   response = client.access_secret_version(request={"name": resource_name})
   OPENAI_API_KEY = response.payload.data.decode('UTF-8')