Secret Manager: Support for Regional Secret Operations in Spring Cloud GCP Secret Manager Service

[suvidha-malaviya]

Description

We would like to request a feature enhancement for the Spring Cloud GCP library to support regional secret operations in the Secret Manager service.

Google Cloud Platform has recently introduced support for regional secrets, allowing users to create and manage secrets in specific regions for better performance and compliance. Currently, the Spring Cloud GCP library supports global secret operations, but it lacks functionality for the regional secret management capabilities.

Implementing support for regional secret operations would greatly enhance the flexibility and usability of the library, enabling users to take advantage of the regional features provided by GCP.

Proposed Changes:

• Enhance the current Secret Manager service integration to support the creation, retrieval, and management of regional secrets. This can be achieved by introducing an additional property called location in GcpSecretManagerProperties, which other classes can use to provide the same functionality as the existing global secret operations.
• Update the documentation to reflect the new capabilities and provide sample of how to use regional secrets.

We believe it will be beneficial for many users looking to leverage regional secrets in their applications.

More information about regional secrets: https://cloud.google.com/secret-manager/regional-secrets/data-residency

[abheda-crest]

Opened the PR to add support for Regional Secret Operations in Spring Cloud GCP Secret Manager Service: #3365