Managing Secrets in Kubernetes

In part one of this series on Best Practices for Building and Designing Containers for Kubernetes, we looked at how to separate config from code in Kubernetes and why you need to do that. Specifically, we examined how config maps and environment variables are defined and configured. In this post, we continue that important discussion with a look at secrets management, what secrets are, and how you manage them.

Managing Public Configuration Information in Kubernetes

Not all configuration information is safe to keep out in the “public” and many, if not most, Kubernetes-hosted workloads need usernames/passwords, tokens, keys or other private information to securely connect to other services. There are a variety of options worth exploring here, each with its own set of positives and negatives.

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