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)
helm-secrets
A helm plugin that help manage secrets with Git workflow and store them anywhere (by jkroepke)
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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
helm-secrets
Posts with mentions or reviews of helm-secrets.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-09.
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Simplified Deployment: A Deep Dive into Containerization and Helm
helm plugin install https://github.com/databus23/helm-diff helm plugin install https://github.com/aslafy-z/helm-git helm plugin install https://github.com/jkroepke/helm-secrets
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My recently deployed media apps in ArgoCD, migrating from Terraform.
I use Helm secrets which integrates Mozilla Sops to handle secrets in my Helm charts.
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How to Deploy and Scale Strapi on a Kubernetes Cluster 1/2
Use Helm Secrets.
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Secret Management in Kubernetes: Approaches, Tools, and Best Practices
ArgoCD users would have to build container images with SOPS baked in using Helm chart extensions or Kustomize extensions. Flux allows configuring sops directly into the Flux manifests.
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GitOps and Kubernetes – Secure Handling of Secrets
There is also the helm secrets plugin, which can also be used in ArgoCD with manual configuration.
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Disable auto sync at application level when managed by ApplicationSet.
Not sure if this is applicable for your use case, but you could use helm-secrets to fetch remote value files from https or git: https://github.com/jkroepke/helm-secrets/wiki/Values
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Goodbye Sealed Secrets, hello SOPS
$ helm plugin install https://github.com/jkroepke/helm-secrets --version v3.14.0
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How should I manage my Helm charts?
https://github.com/jkroepke/helm-secrets powered by sops
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Thoughts on using git-crypt
SOPS is great, and there are a lot of GitOps tools that either integrate with SOPS directly or make it relatively painless to integrate into your workflow, e.g. helm-secrets.
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How to manage passwords in Helm
SOPS and helm-secrets: https://github.com/jkroepke/helm-secrets
What are some alternatives?
When comparing external-secrets and helm-secrets you can also consider the following projects:
sealed-secrets - A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets
secrets-store-csi-driver - Secrets Store CSI driver for Kubernetes secrets - Integrates secrets stores with Kubernetes via a CSI volume.
vault-secrets-operator - Create Kubernetes secrets from Vault for a secure GitOps based workflow.
vault-secrets-operator - The Vault Secrets Operator (VSO) allows Pods to consume Vault secrets natively from Kubernetes Secrets.
sops - Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets
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!
argocd-operator - A Kubernetes operator for managing Argo CD clusters.
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.
argo-rollouts - Progressive Delivery for Kubernetes
trousseau - Store and access your secrets the Kubernetes native way with any external KMS.
hull - The incredible HULL - Helm Uniform Layer Library - is a Helm library chart to improve Helm chart based workflows
external-secrets vs sealed-secrets
helm-secrets vs sealed-secrets
external-secrets vs secrets-store-csi-driver
helm-secrets vs vault-secrets-operator
external-secrets vs vault-secrets-operator
helm-secrets vs sops
external-secrets vs Reloader
helm-secrets vs argocd-operator
external-secrets vs kube-score
helm-secrets vs argo-rollouts
external-secrets vs trousseau
helm-secrets vs hull