4.3 Practical exercise

Complete the steps below to configure Snowflake secrets, through Mage’s internal Secrets manager. You can substitute Secrets from other data warehouse technologies if Snowflake is not in your data stack: Change this to GCP info

• Enter the Snowflake secret for your login password

• Enter the Snowflake secret for your account (account_id.region)

If you successfully enter a secret, your Mage secrets manager should look similar to the picture below:

Mage's secrets management system provides a secure way to handle sensitive information within your data pipelines. By utilizing the built-in secrets manager, you protect credentials from accidental exposure while maintaining easy access for your pipeline code. This approach ensures that sensitive data remains encrypted and access-controlled, meeting security requirements for production data engineering environments.