external-secrets
External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service like AWS Secrets Manager and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets. (by external-secrets)
argocd-vault-plugin
An Argo CD plugin to retrieve secrets from Secret Management tools and inject them into Kubernetes secrets (by argoproj-labs)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
external-secrets
Posts with mentions or reviews of external-secrets.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-06.
- GKE Backup to only backup secrets?
- How to securely store configs across microservices and not commit secrets to vc
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On AWS: Why use EKS instead of ECS?
Something I personally like about EKS is the Amazon Controllers for Kubernetes nowadays they would more preoperly be called 'operators' like the (non AWS and non AWS specific) External Secrets Operator. Essentially you delegate your cluster to create external resources elsewhere on your behalf based on annotations in your deployment.
- How do you rotate 3rd parties API keys?
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Self-hosted Secrets Manager (or something alike)
Vault is extremely complex and heavy for my tastes, and Bitwarden Secrets Manager implementation AFAIU is not open source and not suitable for self-hosting. I like that both can be easily integrated with External Secrets for kubernetes secrets management.
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How to Deploy and Scale Strapi on a Kubernetes Cluster 1/2
Store the Secrets in a vault like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, GCP Secret Manager, etc., and then use an operator like External Secrets Operator to add them to your K8s cluster.
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GitOps and Kubernetes – Secure Handling of Secrets
External Secrets is an operator that integrates external KMS such as Hashicorp Vault or those of the major cloud providers. It reads secrets from the external APIs and injects them into Kubernetes secrets. The operator is a new implementation after the merge of similar projects from GoDaddy and ContainerSolutions.
- Accessing ENV variables from cronjob
- How do I manage my Kubernetes secrets?
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How do I manage Kubernetes Secrets?
I use Kubernetes-External-Secrets https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets with aws parameter store
argocd-vault-plugin
Posts with mentions or reviews of argocd-vault-plugin.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-18.
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GitOps and Kubernetes – Secure Handling of Secrets
ArgoCD supports SOPS with the vault Plugin.
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Injecting secrets from Vault into Helm charts with ArgoCD
repoServer: rbac: - verbs: - get - list - watch apiGroups: - '' resources: - secrets - configmaps initContainers: - name: download-tools image: registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8 env: - name: AVP_VERSION value: 1.11.0 command: [sh, -c] args: - >- curl -L https://github.com/argoproj-labs/argocd-vault-plugin/releases/download/v$(AVP_VERSION)/argocd-vault-plugin_$(AVP_VERSION)_linux_amd64 -o argocd-vault-plugin && chmod +x argocd-vault-plugin && mv argocd-vault-plugin /custom-tools/ volumeMounts: - mountPath: /custom-tools name: custom-tools extraContainers: - name: avp-helm command: [/var/run/argocd/argocd-cmp-server] image: quay.io/argoproj/argocd:v2.4.8 securityContext: runAsNonRoot: true runAsUser: 999 volumeMounts: - mountPath: /var/run/argocd name: var-files - mountPath: /home/argocd/cmp-server/plugins name: plugins - mountPath: /tmp name: tmp-dir - mountPath: /home/argocd/cmp-server/config name: cmp-plugin - name: custom-tools subPath: argocd-vault-plugin mountPath: /usr/local/bin/argocd-vault-plugin volumes: - configMap: name: cmp-plugin name: cmp-plugin - name: custom-tools emptyDir: {} - name: tmp-dir emptyDir: {} # If you face issue with ArgoCD CRDs installation, then uncomment below section to disable it #crds: # install: false
- K8s and HIPPA/PHI compliant systems - Need advice!
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Learning with K3s at home. Is it "better" to store secrets encrypted in the git repo (e.g., sealed-secrets) or in a separately managed secret database (e.g., vault)?
argoproj-labs/argocd-vault-plugin
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Best solution to use Argocd with helm and manage secrets ? Don't say flux !
We’re using https://github.com/argoproj-labs/argocd-vault-plugin which allows you to define secrets in git (works with more backends than just hashicorp vault despite the name). The documentation took me a bit to figure out, but so far it works.
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Best Practices for Argo CD
Argo CD Vault plugin
- Removing replication count, resource, tolerations, pvc when app is onboarded using ArgoCD
- Gotta love gitops
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Best/Secure way to add a secret for ArgoCD Helm Chart?
I used argocd vault plugin https://github.com/IBM/argocd-vault-plugin
What are some alternatives?
When comparing external-secrets and argocd-vault-plugin you can also consider the following projects:
sealed-secrets - A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets
kubernetes-external-secrets - Integrate external secret management systems with Kubernetes
secrets-store-csi-driver - Secrets Store CSI driver for Kubernetes secrets - Integrates secrets stores with Kubernetes via a CSI volume.
kustomize-sops - KSOPS - A Flexible Kustomize Plugin for SOPS Encrypted Resources
vault-secrets-operator - The Vault Secrets Operator (VSO) allows Pods to consume Vault secrets natively from Kubernetes Secrets.
vault-secrets-operator - Create Kubernetes secrets from Vault for a secure GitOps based workflow.
Reloader - A Kubernetes controller to watch changes in ConfigMap and Secrets and do rolling upgrades on Pods with their associated Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet and DeploymentConfig – [✩Star] if you're using it!
kube-score - Kubernetes object analysis with recommendations for improved reliability and security. kube-score actively prevents downtime and bugs in your Kubernetes YAML and Charts. Static code analysis for Kubernetes.
trousseau - Store and access your secrets the Kubernetes native way with any external KMS.
vault-creds - Sidecar container for requesting dynamic Vault database secrets
external-secrets vs sealed-secrets
argocd-vault-plugin vs kubernetes-external-secrets
external-secrets vs secrets-store-csi-driver
argocd-vault-plugin vs kustomize-sops
external-secrets vs vault-secrets-operator
argocd-vault-plugin vs vault-secrets-operator
external-secrets vs Reloader
argocd-vault-plugin vs sealed-secrets
external-secrets vs kube-score
argocd-vault-plugin vs secrets-store-csi-driver
external-secrets vs trousseau
argocd-vault-plugin vs vault-creds