fixing #608 (#647)

Co-authored-by: Aman Bhardwaj <amanbha@users.noreply.github.com>

howto/setup-secret-store/README.md

@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ The following list shows the supported secret stores by Dapr. The links here wil
 * [GCP Secret Manager](./gcp-secret-manager.md)
 * [Hashicorp Vault](./hashicorp-vault.md)
 * [Kubernetes](./kubernetes.md)
+* [Local JSON secret store (for Development)](./local-secret-store.md)

howto/setup-secret-store/local-secret-store.md

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+# Local secret store (for Development)
+
+This document shows how to enable Local secret store using [Dapr Secrets Component](../../concepts/secrets/README.md) for Development scenarios in Standalone mode. This Dapr secret store component reads plain text JSON from a given file and does not use authentication.
+
+> The Local secret store is in no way recommended for production environments.
+
+## Contents
+
+- [Create JSON file to hold the secrets](#create-json-file-to-hold-the-secrets)
+- [Use Local secret store in Standalone mode](#use-local-secret-store-in-standalone-mode)
+- [References](#references)
+
+## Create JSON file to hold the secrets
+
+This creates new JSON file to hold the secrets.
+
+1. Create a json file (i.e. secrets.json) with the following contents:
+
+```json
+{
+    "redisPassword": "your redis passphrase"
+}
+```
+
+## Use Local secret store in Standalone mode
+
+This section walks you through how to enable an Local secret store to store a password to access a Redis state store in Standalone mode.
+
+1. Create a file called localsecretstore.yaml in the components directory
+
+Now create a Dapr localsecretstore component. Create a file called localsecretstore.yaml and add it to your components directory with the following content
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: dapr.io/v1alpha1
+kind: Component
+metadata:
+  name: localsecretstore
+  namespace: default
+spec:
+  type: secretstores.local.localsecretstore
+  metadata:
+  - name: secretsFile
+    value: [path to the secrets.json you created in the previous section]
+  - name: nestedSeparator
+    value: ":"
+```
+
+2. Create redis.yaml in the components directory with the content below
+
+Create a statestore component file. This Redis component yaml shows how to use the `redisPassword` secret stored in a Local secret store called localsecretstore as a Redis connection password.
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: dapr.io/v1alpha1
+kind: Component
+metadata:
+  name: statestore
+  namespace: default
+spec:
+  type: state.redis
+  metadata:
+  - name: redisHost
+    value: "[redis]:6379"
+  - name: redisPassword
+    secretKeyRef:
+      name: redisPassword
+      key: redisPassword
+auth:
+    secretStore: localsecretstore
+```
+
+3. Run your app
+
+You can check that `secretstores.local.localsecretstore` component is loaded and redis server connects successfully by looking at the log output when using the dapr `run` command.
+
+Here is the log when you run [HelloWorld sample](https://github.com/dapr/samples/tree/master/1.hello-world) with Local Secret secret store.
+
+```bash
+$ dapr run --app-id mynode --app-port 3000 --port 3500 node app.js
+
+ℹ️  Starting Dapr with id mynode on port 3500
+✅  You're up and running! Both Dapr and your app logs will appear here.
+
+...
+== DAPR == time="2019-09-25T17:57:37-07:00" level=info msg="loaded component localsecretstore (secretstores.local.localsecretstore)"
+== APP == Node App listening on port 3000!
+== DAPR == time="2019-09-25T17:57:38-07:00" level=info msg="loaded component statestore (state.redis)"
+== DAPR == time="2019-09-25T17:57:38-07:00" level=info msg="loaded component messagebus (pubsub.redis)"
+...
+== DAPR == 2019/09/25 17:57:38 redis: connecting to [redis]:6379
+== DAPR == 2019/09/25 17:57:38 redis: connected to [redis]:6379 (localAddr: x.x.x.x:62137, remAddr: x.x.x.x:6379)
+...
+```
+
+## Related Links
+
+- [Secrets Component](../../concepts/secrets/README.md)
+- [Secrets API](../../reference/api/secrets_api.md)
+- [Secrets API Samples](https://github.com/dapr/samples/blob/master/9.secretstore/README.md)