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docs: MongoDB Atlas eventual consistency #24151

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kevin-loehfelm opened this issue Nov 15, 2023 · 0 comments · Fixed by #24152
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docs: MongoDB Atlas eventual consistency #24151

kevin-loehfelm opened this issue Nov 15, 2023 · 0 comments · Fixed by #24152
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When requesting dynamic credentials using the MongoDB atlas database secrets engine, there is a delay from when the credential is provided to Vault and when the credential is accepted by the hosted cluster in the Atlas project. This behavior has been reviewed previously and discussed with MongoDB. They have confirmed it is working as designed and it's an eventual consistency model for how the Admin API propagates the credential to the hosted cluster.

Describe the solution you'd like
Since this is a known behavior, I'd like to add a note the documentation page for the MongoDB atlas database secrets engine to notify so the end user is aware.

Describe alternatives you've considered
It was considered once to include polling logic as part of the secrets engine so the user would only receive the credential when it was available, but that was decided against in this PR:

hashicorp/vault-plugin-database-mongodbatlas#10

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