helm-charts vs kubernetes-external-secrets

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Integrate external secret management systems with Kubernetes (by external-secrets)

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19	Mentions	26
1,483	Stars	2,584
2.6%	Growth	-
9.8	Activity	7.7
7 days ago	Latest Commit	almost 2 years ago
Smarty	Language	JavaScript
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

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helm-charts

Posts with mentions or reviews of helm-charts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-06.

Loki with grafana.
1 project | /r/kubernetes | 2 Jul 2023

Which helm Chart do you use? You should probably use this one https://github.com/grafana/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/loki-distributed
Grafana for K8S - configure dashboard access permissions
1 project | /r/codehunter | 30 May 2023

We were able to keep this config in Grafana UI but if the pod (K8S) is fail the details is deleted, we are using latest prom helm .
Spring Boot logging with Loki, Promtail, and Grafana (Loki stack)
5 projects | dev.to | 6 Jan 2023

Grafana Labs in its Helm repository provides chart that can install Loki stack also with other complementary tools like Logstash or Prometheus.
How to Monitor your k8s Persistent Volume Usage
3 projects | dev.to | 25 Dec 2022

Once you have this ready for your cluster install Grafana from Grafana helm chart from here
Promtail tenant doesn't apply
1 project | /r/grafana | 13 Dec 2022

grafana/helm-charts/blob/main/charts/loki-stack/Chart.yaml
Grafana Helm Chart - LDAP not working
1 project | /r/grafana | 11 Oct 2022

Using the helm chart values from values.yaml here https://github.com/grafana/helm-charts/blob/main/charts/grafana/values.yaml
Ask HN: IT Security Checklist for Startups?
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Aug 2022
Query frontend for loki-stack
2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 23 Aug 2022

Hey everyone! This is probably an easy question for those of you with experience. I’m using helm to install loki-stack and cannot figure out how to enable the query frontend with the Helm chart.
helm value override doesn't work
2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 9 Jun 2022

from: https://github.com/grafana/helm-charts/blob/ef1cd8a48ab000137df980227745d1eeefcfbefb/charts/promtail/values.yaml
Helm looks in a different repository then the one I specify with a --repo flag
2 projects | /r/helm | 12 Oct 2021

helm3 upgrade --install grafana grafana --dry-run --repo https://grafana.github.io/helm-charts --wait Release "grafana" does not exist. Installing it now. Error: failed to download "https://github.com/grafana/helm-charts/releases/download/grafana-6.16.14/grafana-6.16.14.tgz"

kubernetes-external-secrets

Posts with mentions or reviews of kubernetes-external-secrets. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-13.

aws secrets with eks ,Teffarorm & helm
2 projects | /r/Terraform | 13 Aug 2022
Securing Kubernetes Secrets with HashiCorp Vault
2 projects | dev.to | 21 Jun 2022

$ helm repo add external-secrets https://external-secrets.github.io/kubernetes-external-secrets/ "external-secrets" has been added to your repositories $ helm install k8s-external-secrets external-secrets/kubernetes-external-secrets -f values.yaml NAME: k8s-external-secrets LAST DEPLOYED: Wed Mar 23 22:50:35 2022 NAMESPACE: default STATUS: deployed REVISION: 1 TEST SUITE: None NOTES: The kubernetes external secrets has been installed. Check its status by running: $ kubectl --namespace default get pods -l "app.kubernetes.io/name=kubernetes-external-secrets,app.kubernetes.io/instance=k8s-external-secrets" Visit https://github.com/external-secrets/kubernetes-external-secrets for instructions on how to use kubernetes external secrets
SimpleSecrets: A self-hosted K8S Secrets Manager Operator
4 projects | /r/kubernetes | 3 Mar 2022

I’m reading above that you weren’t aware of sealed-secrets. So I guess that you are not familiar with ExternalSecrets secrets neither. Very solid project
Managing json config files for apps deployed to k8s at scale
3 projects | /r/devops | 3 Feb 2022
1Password Has Raised $620M
13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jan 2022

They probably should merge with https://github.com/external-secrets/kubernetes-external-secr...
Recommended way of securing AWS secret key and id in K8s secrets for pulling images from AWS ECR
1 project | /r/aws | 13 Dec 2021
Do you have a TODO checklist when creating clusters from scratch?
2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 8 Nov 2021

I do not recommend vault if you are not experienced. It is a heavy infra to manage. I suggest looking into https://github.com/external-secrets/kubernetes-external-secrets and selecting the tool offered by your cloud providers.
Secrets usage
1 project | /r/kubernetes | 5 Nov 2021

This is where things like the vault agent sidecar or projects like external secrets come in and allow you to inject / sync your secrets backend and your Kubernetes workloads :)
Cloud password managements
1 project | /r/devops | 28 Oct 2021

Depending on what platform you are on, you could use the AWS SDK or a tool like external-secrets (for Kubernetes).
Kuberentes CI/CD
4 projects | /r/kubernetes | 26 Oct 2021

We don't keep anything sensitive inside of Helm charts. We use AWS Secrets Manager and external-secrets

What are some alternatives?

When comparing helm-charts and kubernetes-external-secrets you can also consider the following projects:

syslog-ng - syslog-ng is an enhanced log daemon, supporting a wide range of input and output methods: syslog, unstructured text, queueing, SQL & NoSQL.

argocd-vault-plugin - An Argo CD plugin to retrieve secrets from Secret Management tools and inject them into Kubernetes secrets

zeek-clickhouse

sealed-secrets - A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets

ClickHouse - ClickHouse® is a free analytics DBMS for big data

vault-secrets-operator - Create Kubernetes secrets from Vault for a secure GitOps based workflow.

logging-operator - Logging operator for Kubernetes

Bitwarden - The core infrastructure backend (API, database, Docker, etc).

vector - A high-performance observability data pipeline.

secrets-store-csi-driver - Secrets Store CSI driver for Kubernetes secrets - Integrates secrets stores with Kubernetes via a CSI volume.

jaeger - CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

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!