kubernetes-secret-generator VS external-secrets

Compare kubernetes-secret-generator vs external-secrets and see what are their differences.

kubernetes-secret-generator

Kubernetes controller for automatically generating and updating secrets (by mittwald)

external-secrets

External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service like AWS Secrets Manager and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets. (by external-secrets)
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kubernetes-secret-generator external-secrets
1 23
313 3,877
3.8% 4.7%
3.3 9.7
10 days ago 7 days ago
Go Go
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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kubernetes-secret-generator

Posts with mentions or reviews of kubernetes-secret-generator. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-11.

external-secrets

Posts with mentions or reviews of external-secrets. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kubernetes-secret-generator and external-secrets you can also consider the following projects:

argocd-lovely-plugin - A plugin to make Argo CD behave like we'd like.

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

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

vault-secrets-operator - The Vault Secrets Operator (VSO) allows Pods to consume Vault secrets natively from Kubernetes Secrets.

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!

kube-score - Kubernetes object analysis with recommendations for improved reliability and security. kube-score actively prevents downtime and bugs in your Kubernetes YAML and Charts. Static code analysis for Kubernetes.

trousseau - Store and access your secrets the Kubernetes native way with any external KMS.

spiffe-vault - Integrates Spiffe and Vault to have secretless authentication

ktunnel - A cli that exposes your local resources to kubernetes

popeye - 👀 A Kubernetes cluster resource sanitizer

vaultwarden - Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs