Organisation API Token

[Dave Poole]

We have a docker container that we include in all our CI/CD workflows that publishes generates and publishes documentation to Confluence.

At present this works by having two GitHub organisation secrets containing

• Confluence user name
• PAT token for that user

The problem I am trying to solve is that we don't want the user to be locked to an individual with their expiring PAT token.  In effect we want a service account to use with our CI/CD process.

Is there an official way of doing this?

Is it simply a case of creating a CICD user just as for any other account with an associated PAT token?

[marc -Collabello--Phase Locked-]

There is no "official" way to do this except to build a Confluence cloud addon with an api which is exposed to your container.  This is a lot of work and maintenance.

The pragmatic way is to use a service account user, give this account minimal rights, and create an API token for this account.  This allows you to access the Confluence cloud API with BasicAuth.