Snowflake

Create an integration to manage access to a Snowflake instance

Snowflake is a fully managed, cloud-based data platform that functions as a data warehouse, data lake, and data sharing solution. With features such as automatic scaling, secure data sharing, and robust data integration, Snowflake offers high performance and flexibility, ensuring seamless data management and analytics.

Through this integration, Apono helps you securely manage access to your Snowflake instance.

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Prerequisites

Item	Description
Apono Connector	On-prem connection serving as a bridge between a Snowflake instance and Apono: AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes
Snowflake Hostname	Unique identifier of the Snowflake instance to connect You can use either format: <account_locator>.<cloud_region_id> (Format 2) <organization_name>-<account_name> (Format 1)
Snowflake User	Snowflake user with the ACCOUNTADMIN role for the Apono connector
Apono Secret	Value generated with the credentials of the user you create Create your secret based on the Snowflake user credentials and connector you are using. You can also input the user credentials directly. Apono does not store credentials. The Apono Connector uses the secret to communicate with services in your environment and separate the Apono web app from the environment for maximal security.

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Integrate Snowflake

You can also use the steps below to integrate with Apono using Terraform.

In step 11, instead of clicking Confirm, follow the Are you integrating with Apono using Terraform? guidance.

Follow these steps to complete the integration:

1. On the Catalog tab, click Snowflake. The Connect Integration page appears.

2. Under Discovery, select one or multiple resource types for Apono to discover in all instances of the environment.

3. Click Next. The Apono connector section expands.

4. From the dropdown menu, select a connector. Choosing a connector links Apono to all the services available on the account where the connector is located.

If the desired connector is not listed, click + Add new connector and follow the instructions for creating a connector (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes).

1. Click Next. The Integration Config section expands.

2. Define the Integration Config settings.

   Setting	Description
   Integration Name	Unique, alphanumeric, user-friendly name used to identify this integration when constructing an access flow
   Hostname	Hostname of the Snowflake instance to connect
   Auth Type	Authorization type for the Snowflake user Option Description User / Password Apono-created local user credentials SSO Auth Synced user credentials from IdP integration with Snowflake
   Option	Description
   User / Password	Apono-created local user credentials
   SSO Auth	Synced user credentials from IdP integration with Snowflake

3. Click Next. The Secret Store section expands.

4. Associate the secret or credentials.

5. Click Next. The Get more with Apono section expands.

6. Define the Get more with Apono settings.

   Setting	Description
   Credential Rotation	(Optional) When Auth Type is set to User / Password, number of days after which the database credentials must be rotated
   Custom Access Details	(Optional) Instructions explaining how to access this integration's resources Upon accessing an integration, a message with these instructions will be displayed to end users in the User Portal. The message may include up to 400 characters. To view the message as it appears to end users, click Preview.
   Integration Owner	(Optional) Fallback approver if no resource owner is found Follow these steps to define one or several integration owners: From the Attribute dropdown menu, select User or Group under the relevant identity provider (IdP) platform. From the Value dropdown menu, select one or multiple users or groups. NOTE: When Resource Owner is defined, an Integration Owner must be defined.
   Resource Owner	(Optional) Group or role responsible for managing access approvals or rejections for the resource Follow these steps to define one or several resource owners: Enter a Key name. This value is the name of the tag created in your cloud environment. From the Attribute dropdown menu, select an attribute under the IdP platform to which the key name is associated. Apono will use the value associated with the key (tag) to identify the resource owner. When you update the membership of the group or role in your IdP platform, this change is also reflected in Apono. NOTE: When this setting is defined, an Integration Owner must also be defined.

7. Click Confirm.

💡Are you integrating with Apono using Terraform?

If you want to integrate with Apono using Terraform, follow these steps instead of clicking Confirm:

1. At the top of the screen, click View as Code. A modal appears with the completed Terraform configuration code.

2. Click to copy the code.

3. Make any additional edits.

4. Deploy the code in your Terraform.

Refer to Integration Config Metadata for more details about the schema definition.

Now that you have completed this integration, you can create access flows that grant permission to your Snowflake instance.