Dynamic AWS RDS hosts

[JordanSussman]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I'm looking at options for ingesting a large number of dynamic (1000+) RDS clusters into Boundary.

Describe the solution you'd like

The equivalent of boundary-plugin-host-aws for AWS RDS.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Create an external process/script that pulls data from AWS and utilizes the Boundary API to register the RDS clusters.
• Create a Boundary plugin once non internal plugins are supported. Does anyone know if this will be supported anytime soon?

Explain any additional use-cases

We also have some interest in registering other AWS resources (elasticache, opensearch, etc.) on a dynamic basis.

[covetocove]

Thanks @JordanSussman, we will leave this request open to gauge interest from the community based on the upvotes it receives. In the meantime, we would recommend configuring RDS hosts with Boundary's Terraform provider if ingesting a large number of clusters.

[JordanSussman]

Thanks @PPacent - any chance you can have someone from the team comment about "Create a Boundary plugin once non internal plugins are supported. Does anyone know if this will be supported anytime soon?"? We would happily build this ourselves and open source the code if/when Boundary allows other plugins.

[covetocove]

@JordanSussman thank you for the interest and eagerness to support Boundary! Adding support for external/DIY plugins is absolutely in our vision for the product but this is not in our immediate roadmap for the coming quarter. It's worth noting that our existing plugins have all been implemented in such a way as to be compatible with future externally-made plugins. It may be helpful to create a separate post for external plugin support so that we don't conflate support/votes between RDS support and external plugin support.