jx-cli VS sops-secrets-operator

Jenkins X also offers a broader focus, but in a different area. Contrary to what the name suggests, it differs greatly from the well-known Jenkins server. It's not a monolithic tool, but rather it consists of different components, such as Tekton for running pipelines and Kaniko for building images. At the heart of Jenkins X is a CLI that the developers have rewritten for the current version 3 along with some fundamental architectural changes.

sops-secrets-operator (sops)

There is also a third-party sops-secrets operator available.

I have configured sops-secret-controller too, I'll be using that to manage my secrets. But my problem is that I don't know beforehand the value.

SOPS that was developed by Mozilla offers significantly more options, though at the expense of a more complex configuration. Here, the key material can come from the key management systems (KMS) of the major cloud providers, from your own HashiCorp Vault, or from configured PGP keys. SOPS itself does not contain an operator, but there are different ways to use it with GitOps. Flux v2 offers native support. There is also the helm-secrets plug-in, which can also be used in ArgoCD with the manual configuration. There is also a sops-secrets operator that has been developed by a third party.