Best practices for deploying secrets management services

All major cloud providers have a secrets management service.

The term secrets refers to database credentials, API keys, tokens, usernames/passwords, and more. The fundamental concept behind secrets management services is to allow you to store such sensitive information in a secured location, with authorization and audit mechanisms, while allowing users and service accounts to securely retrieve secrets, without having to store the information in cleartext in configuration files.

Since the cloud environment is highly dynamic, it is recommended to have a central and secure repository for storing, generating, and retrieving secrets.

DevOps teams can benefit from secrets management services by redirecting their code to the secrets management services, instead of embedding sensitive information (secrets, credentials, access keys, and more) inside cleartext code.

AWS Secrets Manager

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