Spring Cloud GCP Starter Secret Manager - Failed to create the Secret Manager Client for ConfigData loading

[magnram]

Hi there, I'm having problems with my spring boot application using gcp secret manager. Found this comment on a closed issue #1628 where the author was asked to create a new issue on it, but I didn't find any issues created. I'm having the same issues as the original poster with spring boot 3.1.0 and secret manager 4.3.1.

Here is the original comment:

Originally posted by @Topchiisky in #1628 (comment)

Hi there, i have similar problem and i am curious what i am doing wrong.
Here is my setup...

In the pom.xml i have the following

<parent>
		<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
		<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
		<version>3.0.2</version>
		<relativePath /> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>

<dependencyManagement>
		<dependencies>
			<dependency>
				<groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
				<artifactId>spring-cloud-gcp-dependencies</artifactId>
				<version>4.1.4</version>
				<type>pom</type>
				<scope>import</scope>
			</dependency>
		</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

<dependency>
			<groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-cloud-gcp-starter-secretmanager</artifactId>
</dependency>

In the application.properties I have added a property like so: my.app.secret=${sm://test_secret}.

Now in the code i tried a couple of things:

1. @value("${sm://test_secret}")
   private String secret;

2. System.out.println(env.getProperty("my.app.secret"));

3. @Autowired
   private SecretManagerTemplate secretManagerTemplate;

   secretManagerTemplate.getSecretString("test_secret");

From the above 1. and 2. are returning '//test_secret' and not the value of the secret.
3. Is returning properly the value of the secret.

Based on this thread I tried putting 'spring.config.import=sm://' in my application.properties file, but this is breaking my application:

00:22:41.905 [main] ERROR org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication - Application run failed
java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to create the Secret Manager Client for ConfigData loading.
	at com.google.cloud.spring.autoconfigure.secretmanager.SecretManagerConfigDataLocationResolver.createSecretManagerClient(SecretManagerConfigDataLocationResolver.java:124)
	at com.google.cloud.spring.autoconfigure.secretmanager.SecretManagerConfigDataLocationResolver.lambda$registerSecretManagerBeans$0(SecretManagerConfigDataLocationResolver.java:75)
	at org.springframework.boot.BootstrapRegistry$InstanceSupplier.lambda$from$1(BootstrapRegistry.java:160)
	at org.springframework.boot.DefaultBootstrapContext.getInstance(DefaultBootstrapContext.java:119)
	at org.springframework.boot.DefaultBootstrapContext.getOrElseThrow(DefaultBootstrapContext.java:111)
	at org.springframework.boot.DefaultBootstrapContext.get(DefaultBootstrapContext.java:88)
	at com.google.cloud.spring.autoconfigure.secretmanager.SecretManagerConfigDataLocationResolver.createSecretManagerTemplate(SecretManagerConfigDataLocationResolver.java:132)
	at com.google.cloud.spring.autoconfigure.secretmanager.SecretManagerConfigDataLocationResolver.registerSecretManagerBeans(SecretManagerConfigDataLocationResolver.java:85)
	at com.google.cloud.spring.autoconfigure.secretmanager.SecretManagerConfigDataLocationResolver.resolve(SecretManagerConfigDataLocationResolver.java:60)
	at org.springframework.boot.context.config.ConfigDataLocationResolvers.lambda$resolve$1(ConfigDataLocationResolvers.java:102)
	at org.springframework.boot.context.config.ConfigDataLocationResolvers.resolve(ConfigDataLocationResolvers.java:113)
	at org.springframework.boot.context.config.ConfigDataLocationResolvers.resolve(ConfigDataLocationResolvers.java:102)
	at org.springframework.boot.context.config.ConfigDataLocationResolvers.resolve(ConfigDataLocationResolvers.java:94)
	at org.springframework.boot.context.config.ConfigDataImporter.resolve(ConfigDataImporter.java:105)
	at org.springframework.boot.context.config.ConfigDataImporter.resolve(ConfigDataImporter.java:97)
	at org.springframework.boot.context.config.ConfigDataImporter.resolveAndLoad(ConfigDataImporter.java:85)
	at org.springframework.boot.context.config.ConfigDataEnvironmentContributors.withProcessedImports(ConfigDataEnvironmentContributors.java:115)
	at org.springframework.boot.context.config.ConfigDataEnvironment.processInitial(ConfigDataEnvironment.java:242)
	at org.springframework.boot.context.config.ConfigDataEnvironment.processAndApply(ConfigDataEnvironment.java:229)
	at org.springframework.boot.context.config.ConfigDataEnvironmentPostProcessor.postProcessEnvironment(ConfigDataEnvironmentPostProcessor.java:96)
	at org.springframework.boot.context.config.ConfigDataEnvironmentPostProcessor.postProcessEnvironment(ConfigDataEnvironmentPostProcessor.java:89)
	at org.springframework.boot.env.EnvironmentPostProcessorApplicationListener.onApplicationEnvironmentPreparedEvent(EnvironmentPostProcessorApplicationListener.java:109)
	at org.springframework.boot.env.EnvironmentPostProcessorApplicationListener.onApplicationEvent(EnvironmentPostProcessorApplicationListener.java:94)
	at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.doInvokeListener(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:176)
	at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.invokeListener(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:169)
	at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:143)
	at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:131)
	at org.springframework.boot.context.event.EventPublishingRunListener.multicastInitialEvent(EventPublishingRunListener.java:136)
	at org.springframework.boot.context.event.EventPublishingRunListener.environmentPrepared(EventPublishingRunListener.java:81)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplicationRunListeners.lambda$environmentPrepared$2(SpringApplicationRunListeners.java:64)
	at java.base/java.lang.Iterable.forEach(Iterable.java:75)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplicationRunListeners.doWithListeners(SpringApplicationRunListeners.java:118)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplicationRunListeners.doWithListeners(SpringApplicationRunListeners.java:112)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplicationRunListeners.environmentPrepared(SpringApplicationRunListeners.java:63)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.prepareEnvironment(SpringApplication.java:352)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:303)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1302)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1291)
	at

Originally posted by @Topchiisky in #1628 (comment)

[meltsufin]

Can you provide a reproducer? You can modify the Secrets Manager Sample for this.

[saibanna]

I had below property in application.properties after removing it worked fine for me
spring.cloud.gcp.secretmanager.enabled=true