Start the bot and configure Amazon S3 with Secrets Manager - AWS Wickr

This guide documents the new AWS Wickr administration console, released on March 13, 2025. For documentation on the classic version of the AWS Wickr administration console, see Classic Administration Guide.

Start the bot and configure Amazon S3 with Secrets Manager

You can use the Secrets Manager to host the credentials, and the Amazon S3 bucket information. When you start the data retention bot, you will need to set an environment variable that specifies the Secrets Manager where this information is stored.

docker run -v /opt/compliance_1234567890_bot:/tmp/compliance_1234567890_bot --network=host \
-d --restart on-failure:5 --name="compliance_1234567890_bot" -ti \
 -e WICKRIO_BOT_NAME='compliance_1234567890_bot' \
 -e AWS_SECRET_NAME='wickrpro/alpha/compliance_1234567890_bot' \
wickr/bot-compliance-cloud:latest

The wickrpro/compliance/compliance_1234567890_bot secret has the following secret value in it, shown as plaintext.

{
    "password":"password",
    "s3_bucket_name":"bucket-name",
    "s3_region":"us-east-1",
    "s3_folder_name":"folder-name"
}

Messages and files received by the bot will be put in the bot-compliance bucket in the folder named network1234567890.