Kubernetes Secrets: Install External Secrets Operator

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The Kubernetes External Secrets have evolved into an Operator: External Secrets Operator What does it bring to the table?

05/09/2022

How to retrieve a github actions secret

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When using Github Actions secrets, it won't show any secrets on the action's logs: It is going to replace any string that matches with an existing secret with ***

24/08/2022

Import files into objects using helm

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When writing helm charts being able to specify the files to use for ConfigMap or a Secret objects is way more convenient than having the object already rendered. Using .Files.Glob we can tell help to import a set of files into the object

08/07/2022

Keeping the terraform state in a Kubernetes Secret

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Storing the terraform state into a S3 bucket with dynamoDB for locking has become the de facto standard for being able to share the state across an organization. Nevertheless, there are interesting alternatives: We can use a Kubernetes Secret

19/04/2022

Managing (safely) Secrets as Code with sops and terraform

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If you are using Infrastructure as Code you've realized there is something it shouldn't be on a git repository: That's the secrets, we should never store clear-text secrets on a git repository, not even if it's a private repository: Anyone with access to that repository could get them.

How can we securely create secrets as code into the AWS Secrets Manager using terraform?

15/02/2022