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Updating Bootstrap Key in a Cluster

TLDR Pradyuman enquired about rotating the bootstrap key in a cluster. Kishore Nallan explained the current limitations and advised to raise this issue on Github. Pradyuman submitted the issue.

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Dec 04, 2021 (21 months ago)

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Pradyuman

09:30 AM

Is there a way to rotate the initial bootstrap key that was used? I don't see it in the list of keys returned from the API.

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Kishore Nallan

09:31 AM

The bootstrap key is special and is a failsafe. You typically don't use it for anything but only use it to generate another master key that you can use and rotate. The only way to change the bootstrap key is to restart Typesense server with a different bootstrap key, since the key can be passed only by CLI argument (--api-key) or via configuration file or env variable.

Pradyuman

09:46 AM

If we have a cluster, can we update this bootstrap key on a rolling basis? Or will changing it on one node lead to synchronization issues or potential cluster downtime?

Kishore Nallan

09:47 AM

Not possible currently to do this in a rolling fashion without pausing writes. Can you please create an issue on Github? We should support this.

09:48

Kishore Nallan

09:48 AM

Just to clarify, will require pausing writes to cluster.

Pradyuman

11:00 PM

Sure!

11:15

Pradyuman

11:15 PM

https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/452

11:15

Pradyuman

11:15 PM

Let me know if there's any additional context you'd like me to add to this.

Dec 05, 2021 (21 months ago)

Kishore Nallan

01:55 AM

Looks good, thanks.

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