BigIP Device Secrets Management
Application Study Tool’s Opentelemetry Collector requires credentials to access the BigIP devices being monitored. The default configuration (management via environment variable file on disk) is optimized for quick proof of concept style deployment, and is unlikely to meet the “production” level use case requirements in many organizations.
This section describes the default configuration (via env file), and outlines alternate approaches which may be more appropriate for actual production use cases (at a high level since the details will depend heavily on provider selection, deployment environment, etc).