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Connect to Pinecone

Let's configure the Pinecone connection properties to connect to Pinecone.

Before you begin

Before you get started, you'll need to get the API key from your Pinecone account.
Check out Prepare for authentication to learn about the authentication requirements before you configure a connection.

Connection details

The following table describes the basic connection properties:
Property
Description
Connection Name
Name of the connection.
Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -,
Maximum length is 255 characters.
Description
Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters.
Type
Pinecone
Use Secret Vault
Stores sensitive credentials for this connection in the secrets manager that is configured for your organization.
This property appears only if secrets manager is set up for your organization.
When you enable the secret vault in the connection, you can select which credentials that the Secure Agent retrieves from the secrets manager. If you don't enable this option, the credentials are stored in the repository or on a local Secure Agent, depending on how your organization is configured.
For information about how to configure and use a secrets manager, see Secrets manager configuration.
Runtime Environment
The name of the runtime environment where you want to run tasks.
Select a Secure agent or serverless runtime environment.
Hosted Agent is not applicable for mappings in advanced mode.
API Key
The API key of your Pinecone account to authenticate access to the Pinecone APIs.