helm-secrets
A helm plugin that help manage secrets with Git workflow and store them anywhere (by jkroepke)
vault-secrets-operator
Create Kubernetes secrets from Vault for a secure GitOps based workflow. (by ricoberger)
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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
vault-secrets-operator
Posts with mentions or reviews of vault-secrets-operator.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-12.
- Toyota Accidently Exposed A Secret Key Publicly On GitHub For Five Years
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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)?
For home use, I wouldn't bother with Vault unless that's really what you want to learn. Then it's worth looking into setting something up where you could use vault secrets, using one of the available options (I haven't seen the vault-secrets-operator being mentioned).
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Hashicorp Vault integration with Secret objects
It is but it affects vault-secrets-operator too, see https://github.com/ricoberger/vault-secrets-operator/issues/104 (and no, I’ve only use vault-secrets-operator)
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Automation assistants: GitOps tools in comparison
If you are using an external KMS in any case, then there are other options, such as the kubernetes-external-secrets operator that was originally started by GoDaddy and the externalsecret-operator from Container Solutions. If you use HashiCorp Vault, you also have the option of using the Vault Secrets operator. This works similarly to the Sealed Secrets Operator, but instead of managing its own key material, it retrieves the secrets from Vault. The CNCF Technology Radar from January 2021 provides an overview of the types of tools that are available for secrets management.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing helm-secrets and vault-secrets-operator you can also consider the following projects:
sealed-secrets - A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets
sops - Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets
kubernetes-external-secrets - Integrate external secret management systems with Kubernetes
argocd-operator - A Kubernetes operator for managing Argo CD clusters.
argo-rollouts - Progressive Delivery for Kubernetes
argocd-vault-plugin - An Argo CD plugin to retrieve secrets from Secret Management tools and inject them into Kubernetes secrets
hull - The incredible HULL - Helm Uniform Layer Library - is a Helm library chart to improve Helm chart based workflows
Flux - Successor: https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2
git-crypt - Transparent file encryption in git
atlantis - Terraform Pull Request Automation
helm-secrets vs sealed-secrets
vault-secrets-operator vs sealed-secrets
helm-secrets vs sops
vault-secrets-operator vs kubernetes-external-secrets
helm-secrets vs argocd-operator
vault-secrets-operator vs sops
helm-secrets vs argo-rollouts
vault-secrets-operator vs argocd-vault-plugin
helm-secrets vs hull
vault-secrets-operator vs Flux
helm-secrets vs git-crypt
vault-secrets-operator vs atlantis