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sealed-secrets
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Deploy Secure Spring Boot Microservices on Amazon EKS Using Terraform and Kubernetes
If you have noticed, you are setting secrets in plain text on the application-configmap.yml file, which is not ideal and is not a best practice for security. The best way to do this securely would be to use AWS Secrets Manager, an external service like HashiCorp Vault, or Sealed Secrets. To learn more about these methods see the blog post Shhhh... Kubernetes Secrets Are Not Really Secret!.
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Plain text Kubernetes secrets are fine
Yeah documentation is hard and I'm guilty (as a former maintainer of SealedSecrets)
SealedSecrets was designed with "write only" secrets in mind.
Turns out a lot of people need to access the current secrets because they need to update a part of a "composite" secret.
There are two kinds of "composite" secrets, one easy and one harder, but if you don't know how to do it, even the easier is hard:
1. Secret with multiple data "items" (also called keys in K8s Secret jargon but that's confusing when there is encryption involved). I.e. good old "data":{"foo": "....", "bar": "..."}
2. Secrets where data within one item is actually a config file with cleartext and secrets mixed up in one single string (usually some JSON or YAML or TOML)
Case 1 is "easy" to deal with once you realize that sealed secrets files are just text files and you can just manually merge and update encryoted data items. We even created a "merge" and some "raw" encryption APIs to make that process a little less "copy pasta" but it's still hard to have a good UX that works for everyone.
Case 2 is harder. We did implement a data templating feature that allows you to generate a config file via a go-template that keeps the cleartext parts in clear and uses templating directives to inject the secret parts where you want (referencing the encrypted the items)
The main problem with case 2 is that it's undocumented.
The feature landed in 2021:
https://github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets/pull/580
I noticed that people at my current $dayjob used sealed secrets for years and it took me a while to understand that the reason they hated it was that they didn't know about that fundamental feature.
And how to blame them!? It's still undocumented!
In my defense I spent so much effort before and after I left VMware to lobby so that the project got the necessary staffing so it wouldn't die of bitrot that I didn't have much time left to work on documentation. Which is a bit said and probably just an excuse :-)
That said, I'm happy that the project is alive and the current maintainers are taking care of it against the forces of entropy. Perhaps some doc work would be useful too. Unfortunately I don't have time for now.
- Storing secrets in distributed binaries?
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Weekly: Questions and advice
This might be OT, and forgive me, but I think one of the best practices for Encrypting and Managing secrets in Kubernetes is to use Sealed Secrets, they allow your secrets to be securely stored in git with the rest of the configuration and yet no one with access to the Git repository will be able to read them. I say this might be OT, because Sealed Secrets are trying to mitigate a different threat, the threat of the secrets at rest somewhere, and not "live in the cluster", where in theory all the ingredients to decrypt the secrets would still live.
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Want advice on planned evolution: k3os/Longhorn --> Talos/Ceph, plus Consul and Vault
The addition of Consul and Vault gives me a few things. For one, right now I'm handling secrets with a mixture of SOPS and Sealed Secrets. I use Vault in my professional life, and have used both Vault and Consul at my last job. Vault is a beast, so I may as well get better at it; plus its options for secret injection are better.
- Homebrew 4.0.0 release
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How to Deploy and Scale Strapi on a Kubernetes Cluster 1/2
Use Sealed Secrets Operator.
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Secret Management in Kubernetes: Approaches, Tools, and Best Practices
sealed-secrets (sealed)
- How do other securely manage their secrets?
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GitOps and Kubernetes – Secure Handling of Secrets
An option that easily works with GitOps is the Operator Sealed Secrets from Bitnami. Secrets encrypted with it can only be decrypted by operators running inside the cluster, not even by the original author. For encryption, there is a CLI (and a third-party web UI) that requires a connection to the cluster. The disadvantage of this is that the key material is stored in the cluster, the secrets are bound to the cluster and one has to take care of backups and operation.
keda
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Ask HN: What's the right way to scale K8s for GPU workloads?
It seems you want something like KEDA (https://keda.sh)
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Tortoise: Shell-Shockingly-Good Kubernetes Autoscaling
Most just utilize out of the box macro resources available in HPA.
For more advanced use cases there is keda - https://keda.sh/
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Root Cause Chronicles: Quivering Queue
Thankfully KEDA operator was already part of the cluster, and all Robin had to do was create a ScaledObject manifest targeting the Dispatch ScaleUp event, based on the rabbitmq_global_messages_received_total metric from Prometheus.
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Five tools to add to your K8s cluster
Keda
- K8s latencies in chained services - Using RL?
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Best Kubernetes DevOps Tools: A Comprehensive Guide
KEDA introduces event-driven scaling to Kubernetes workloads. It integrates with Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscalers and can scale pods based on external metrics from services like databases and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, MongoDB).
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Auto-scaling DynamoDB Streams applications on Kubernetes
# update version 2.8.2 if required kubectl apply -f https://github.com/kedacore/keda/releases/download/v2.8.2/keda-2.8.2.yaml
- KEDA
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What is the difference in production for scale to zero usecases - Keda vs Lambda ?
This is traditionally a AWS Lambda usecase - or an OpenFaas kind of usecase. But very recently i discovered https://keda.sh/ and it seems it is specifically meant for this in a kubernetes environment.
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Ingesting Data into OpenSearch using Apache Kafka and Go
If you deploy the application to Amazon EKS, you can also consider using KEDA to auto-scale your consumer application based on the number of messages in the MSK topic.
What are some alternatives?
vault-secrets-operator - Create Kubernetes secrets from Vault for a secure GitOps based workflow.
k8s-prometheus-adapter - An implementation of the custom.metrics.k8s.io API using Prometheus
sops - Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets
argo - Workflow Engine for Kubernetes
Vault - A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
istio - Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
kubernetes-external-secrets - Integrate external secret management systems with Kubernetes
karpenter-provider-aws - Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity.
helm-secrets - A helm plugin that help manage secrets with Git workflow and store them anywhere
helm - The Kubernetes Package Manager
argocd-vault-plugin - An Argo CD plugin to retrieve secrets from Secret Management tools and inject them into Kubernetes secrets
http-add-on - Add-on for KEDA to scale HTTP workloads