helm-secrets
A helm plugin that help manage secrets with Git workflow and store them anywhere (by jkroepke)
kubernetes-external-secrets
Integrate external secret management systems with Kubernetes (by external-secrets)
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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.
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
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
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Securing Kubernetes Secrets with HashiCorp Vault
$ 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
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SimpleSecrets: A self-hosted K8S Secrets Manager Operator
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
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1Password Has Raised $620M
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
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Do you have a TODO checklist when creating clusters from scratch?
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.
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Secrets usage
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 :)
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Cloud password managements
Depending on what platform you are on, you could use the AWS SDK or a tool like external-secrets (for Kubernetes).
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Kuberentes CI/CD
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-secrets and kubernetes-external-secrets you can also consider the following projects:
sealed-secrets - A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets
argocd-vault-plugin - An Argo CD plugin to retrieve secrets from Secret Management tools and inject them into Kubernetes secrets
vault-secrets-operator - Create Kubernetes secrets from Vault for a secure GitOps based workflow.
sops - Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets
argocd-operator - A Kubernetes operator for managing Argo CD clusters.
Bitwarden - The core infrastructure backend (API, database, Docker, etc).
argo-rollouts - Progressive Delivery for Kubernetes
secrets-store-csi-driver - Secrets Store CSI driver for Kubernetes secrets - Integrates secrets stores with Kubernetes via a CSI volume.
hull - The incredible HULL - Helm Uniform Layer Library - is a Helm library chart to improve Helm chart based workflows
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!
helm-secrets vs sealed-secrets
kubernetes-external-secrets vs argocd-vault-plugin
helm-secrets vs vault-secrets-operator
kubernetes-external-secrets vs sealed-secrets
helm-secrets vs sops
kubernetes-external-secrets vs vault-secrets-operator
helm-secrets vs argocd-operator
kubernetes-external-secrets vs Bitwarden
helm-secrets vs argo-rollouts
kubernetes-external-secrets vs secrets-store-csi-driver
helm-secrets vs hull
kubernetes-external-secrets vs Reloader