How to switch config server Github access from password to personal access token

Products

• Support Only for Spring

Issue/Introduction

If you need to change authentication on your config servers from username / password to username / personal-access-token, how can you do this without recreating the config servers?

https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/creating-a-personal-access-token

Environment

Product Version: Other

Resolution

cf update-service command will update authentication from password to user access token. Pass the token via the password field, in place of the password.

Here is a sample JSON file (parameters.json) to pass in the parameters:
 

{ "git":
    { "uri": "https://github.com/github-account/app-config",
      "label": "master",
      "username": "enterprise-username",
      "password": "user-access-token-string"
    }
}

Then you can pass use this command, referencing the JSON file:

cf update-service <config-server-name> -c parameters.json

Instead of using a file, you can pass the JSON on the command line, like so:

cf update-service <config-server-name> -c '{"git": {"uri": "https://github.com/github-account/app-config", "label": "master", "username": "enterprise-username", "password": "user-access-token-string" } }'