jx VS sops

Check out the https://jenkins-x.io/ project

Jenkins X (https://jenkins-x.io/) - standup k8s w gitops ci/cd around jenkins

Like: * Drone.io * GoCD * Github Actions * Gitlab CI * Circle CI * JenkinsX (not the same as old jenkins - it is from built from the ground up on kube with tekton)

You may want to checkout Jenkins X, it using Tekton underneath

HybridK8s Droid - Intelligence foor your favourite Delivery Platform Devtron - Software Delivery Workflow for Kubernetes Skaffold - Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development Apollo - Apollo - The logz.io continuous deployment solution over kubernetes Helm Cabin - Web UI that visualizes Helm releases in a Kubernetes cluster flagger - Progressive delivery Kubernetes operator (Canary, A/B Testing and Blue/Green deployments) Kubeform - Kubernetes CRDs for Terraform providers https://kubeform.com Spinnaker - Spinnaker is an open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence. http://www.spinnaker.io/ werf - GitOps tool to deliver apps to Kubernetes and integrate this process with GitLab and other CI tools Flux - GitOps Kubernetes operator Argo CD - Declarative continuous deployment for Kubernetes Tekton - A cloud native continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) solution Jenkins X - Jenkins X provides automated CI+CD for Kubernetes with Preview Environments on Pull Requests using Tekton, Knative, Lighthouse, Skaffold and Helm KubeVela - KubeVela works as an application delivery control plane that is fully decoupled from runtime infrastructure ksonnet - A CLI-supported framework that streamlines writing and deployment of Kubernetes configurations to multiple clusters CircleCI - A cloud-based tool that helps build continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines to Kubernetes.

Argo has served us well, but our devops architect is currently building out a new ci/cd pipeline to replace Argo with Jenkins X. https://jenkins-x.io/

Jenkins

My script just sets up default .sops.yaml for https://github.com/getsops/sops

You can further edit .sops.yaml(eg have multiple of them) and decide how you split secrets in your directory tree to further customize who can decrypt the secrets.

It works pretty well for prod/dev splits, etc

Mozilla SOPS (Secrets OPerationS) is an open-source command-line tool for managing and storing secrets. It uses secure encryption methods to encrypt secrets at rest and decrypt them at runtime. SOPS supports a variety of key management systems, including AWS KMS, GCP KMS, Azure Key Vault, and PGP. It's particularly useful in a DevOps context where sensitive data like API keys, passwords, or certificates need to be securely managed and seamlessly integrated into application workflows.

Encrypted secrets thanks to SOPS and Age

We do the exact same thing to keep track of some credentials we use sops[1] and AWS KMS to separate credentials by sensitivity, then use the git differ to view the diffs between the encrypted secrets

Definitely not best practice security-wise, but it works well

[1] https://github.com/getsops/sops

For anyone new to SOPS like I was - https://github.com/getsops/sops

I've found this is largely solved by strictly separating plain config and secrets, and then having secrets pull from GCP secret manager / vault / whatever.

You can then commit all the config (including the secret identifiers) and it all just works so long as you're authenticated with your secret storage system.

We do this for the live configuration as well in line with Gitops and find it to work well.

If you don't want to use a cloud secret manager you can also use something like https://github.com/getsops/sops to commit the encrypted secrets safely

Basically, the simpler the better --just encrypt your secrets and check them in to version control.

We use SOPS[0] for this, and have found it to be pretty nice.

[0]: https://github.com/getsops/sops

The answer is that secrets shouldn't be stored in the git repo at all, but somewhere safe like a password manager or Mozilla's SOPS which people seem to love.

Unfortunately, the SOPS project is in some sort of a limbo state and there has been quite a long period with limited maintenance and unclear position from Mozilla. Despite the project being accepted into the CNCF, it's still unclear what will happen with it going forward.