Charmed MongoDB K8S How To - Manage passwords

How to manage passwords

Internal operator user

The operator user is used internally by the Charmed MongoDB Operator, the set-password action can be used to rotate its password.

  • To set a specific password for the operator user
juju run mongodb-k8s/leader set-password password=<password>

where is the password you want to set

  • To randomly generate a password for the operator user
juju run mongodb-k8s/leader set-password

Rotate application passwords

To rotate the passwords of users created for related applications, the relation should be removed and related again. That process will generate a new user and password for the application.

juju remove-relation <application> mongodb-k8s
juju add-relation <application> mongodb-k8s

where is the name of your application