charts VS sops

Both of these examples seem pretty obvious and something you wouldn’t mess up, but as your chart grows, so does your values.yaml file. A great example is the Redis chart by Bitnami. I encourage you to scroll through its values file. See you in a minute!

We will write a Terraform module that will take a list of configurations for each required RabbitMQ instance. Luckily for us, we don't have to write the Kubernetes yaml configurations since the helm charts by Bitnami does a great job of doing all the things we discussed above. All we need to do is leverage Terraform Helm Provider and deploy the chart with the required values for our use case.

💡  The full details of helm charts can be referenced in their associated GitHub Repository.

I have a configmap with the ndjson set up under data:, similar to https://github.com/bitnami/charts/issues/6159 and it's subsequent answer.

This way, you can easily deploy any Helm charts from this public repo - https://github.com/bitnami/charts/tree/main/bitnami in just minutes.

The Bitnami Github Pages themselves usually cover everything you need to know. Configure a values.yaml file, or modify that to your liking, and you run helm install, as written in their docs.

The actual reason that our pods are not coming up is found when we review the helm installation that we are trying to run. If you check the dependencies in the GitHub repository (https://github.com/bitnami/charts/blob/main/bitnami/drupal/values.yaml) you find out that persistent storage is enabled by default and set to 8Gi. Also, the helm package uses MariaDB and the database size is specified to a default of 8Gi, thus setting the minimum storage for this installation to be 16Gi.

We're using https://github.com/bitnami/charts/tree/main/bitnami/spark, but I have heard good things about https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/spark-on-k8s-operator as well. Hudi should not need any long running deployments as per the docs https://hudi.apache.org/docs/0.5.1/deployment/#deploying

Bitnami has its own scaffolding published at https://github.com/bitnami/charts/tree/main/template

My script just sets up default .sops.yaml for https://github.com/getsops/sops

You can further edit .sops.yaml(eg have multiple of them) and decide how you split secrets in your directory tree to further customize who can decrypt the secrets.

It works pretty well for prod/dev splits, etc

Mozilla SOPS (Secrets OPerationS) is an open-source command-line tool for managing and storing secrets. It uses secure encryption methods to encrypt secrets at rest and decrypt them at runtime. SOPS supports a variety of key management systems, including AWS KMS, GCP KMS, Azure Key Vault, and PGP. It's particularly useful in a DevOps context where sensitive data like API keys, passwords, or certificates need to be securely managed and seamlessly integrated into application workflows.

Encrypted secrets thanks to SOPS and Age

We do the exact same thing to keep track of some credentials we use sops[1] and AWS KMS to separate credentials by sensitivity, then use the git differ to view the diffs between the encrypted secrets

Definitely not best practice security-wise, but it works well

[1] https://github.com/getsops/sops

For anyone new to SOPS like I was - https://github.com/getsops/sops

I've found this is largely solved by strictly separating plain config and secrets, and then having secrets pull from GCP secret manager / vault / whatever.

You can then commit all the config (including the secret identifiers) and it all just works so long as you're authenticated with your secret storage system.

We do this for the live configuration as well in line with Gitops and find it to work well.

If you don't want to use a cloud secret manager you can also use something like https://github.com/getsops/sops to commit the encrypted secrets safely

Basically, the simpler the better --just encrypt your secrets and check them in to version control.

We use SOPS[0] for this, and have found it to be pretty nice.

[0]: https://github.com/getsops/sops

The answer is that secrets shouldn't be stored in the git repo at all, but somewhere safe like a password manager or Mozilla's SOPS which people seem to love.

Unfortunately, the SOPS project is in some sort of a limbo state and there has been quite a long period with limited maintenance and unclear position from Mozilla. Despite the project being accepted into the CNCF, it's still unclear what will happen with it going forward.