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How to keep a secret
Rob Barnes (a.k.a. Devops Rob) and Rosemary Wang (author of Infrastructure as Code - Patterns & Practices) are joining us today to talk about infrastructure secrets.
What do Rosemary and Rob think about committing encrypted secrets into a repository? How do they suggest that we improve on storing secrets in LastPass? And if we were to choose HashiCorp Vault, what do we need to know?
Thank you Thomas Eckert for the intro. Thank you Nabeel Sulieman (ep. 46) & Kelsey Hightower (ep. 44) for your gentle nudges towards improving our infra secrets management.
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Featuring
- Rosemary Wang – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
- Rob Barnes – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
- Gerhard Lazu – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Notes and Links
- Bitnami Sealed Secrets
ageCLI- Mozilla SOPS
- Experimental LastPass provider for Kubernetes Secrets Store
- HashiCorp Vault
- 📖 Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices - Rosemary Wang, July 2022
- 🎬 Cloud Identity with HashiCorp Vault - Rob Barnes, DevOps Exchange London, March 2022
- 🎬 Developing a Secrets Engine for HashiCorp Vault - Rosemary Wang, August 2021
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