Northflank Connection - Infisical

Infisical supports the use of API Tokens to connect with Northflank.

<Tip> Infisical recommends creating a specific API role for the app connection and only giving access to projects that will use the integration. </Tip>

Create a Northflank API Token

<Steps> <Step title="Create an API Role"> Navigate to your team page and click **Create token**.

![Create API Role](/images/app-connections/northflank/step-1.png)

Click on **Create API role**.

![Create API Role](/images/app-connections/northflank/step-2.png)

Select all the projects you want this role to have access to, or leave this unchecked if you want to give access to all projects.

![Create API Role](/images/app-connections/northflank/step-3.png)

Add the **Projects** -> **Manage** -> **Read** permission.

![Create API Role](/images/app-connections/northflank/step-4-1.png)

Add the **Config & Secrets** -> **Secret Groups** -> **List**, **Update** and **Read Values** permissions.

![Create API Role](/images/app-connections/northflank/step-4-2.png)

Scroll to the bottom and save the API role.

</Step> <Step title="Create an API Token"> Click on the **API** -> **Tokens** menu on the left and then click the **Create API token** button.

![Create API Token](/images/app-connections/northflank/step-5.png)

Give a name to the API token and click the **Use role** button for the new API role you just created.

![Create API Token](/images/app-connections/northflank/step-6.png)

Click the **View API token** icon to view and copy your token.

![Create API Token](/images/app-connections/northflank/step-7.png)

</Step> </Steps>

Create a Northflank Connection in Infisical

<Tabs> <Tab title="Infisical UI"> <Steps> <Step title="Navigate to App Connections"> In your Infisical dashboard, navigate to the **Integrations** tab in the desired project, then select **App Connections**.

    ![App Connections Tab](/images/app-connections/general/add-connection.png)
  </Step>
  <Step title="Select Northflank Connection">
    Click **+ Add Connection** and choose **Northflank Connection** from the list of integrations.

    ![Select Northflank Connection](/images/app-connections/northflank/northflank-app-connection-option.png)
  </Step>
  <Step title="Fill out the Northflank Connection form">
    Complete the form by providing:
    - A descriptive name for the connection
    - An optional description
    - The API Token from the previous step

    ![Northflank Connection Modal](/images/app-connections/northflank/northflank-app-connection-form.png)
  </Step>
  <Step title="Connection created">
    After submitting the form, your **Northflank Connection** will be successfully created and ready to use with your Infisical project.

    ![Northflank Connection Created](/images/app-connections/northflank/northflank-app-connection-generated.png)
  </Step>
</Steps>

</Tab> <Tab title="API"> To create a Northflank Connection via API, send a request to the [Create Northflank Connection](/api-reference/endpoints/app-connections/northflank/create) endpoint.

### Sample request

```bash Request
curl    --request POST \
        --url https://app.infisical.com/api/v1/app-connections/northflank \
        --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
        --data '{
            "name": "my-northflank-connection",
            "method": "api-token",
            "projectId": "abcdef12-3456-7890-abcd-ef1234567890",
            "credentials": {
                "apiToken": "[API TOKEN]"
            }
        }'
```

### Sample response

```bash Response
{
  "appConnection": {
      "id": "a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-1234567890ab",
      "name": "my-northflank-connection",
      "description": null,
      "projectId": "abcdef12-3456-7890-abcd-ef1234567890",
      "version": 1,
      "orgId": "abcdef12-3456-7890-abcd-ef1234567890",
      "createdAt": "2025-01-23T10:15:00.000Z",
      "updatedAt": "2025-01-23T10:15:00.000Z",
      "isPlatformManagedCredentials": false,
      "credentialsHash": "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e",
      "app": "northflank",
      "method": "api-token",
      "credentials": {}
  }
}
```

</Tab> </Tabs>