vault-k8s
First-class support for Vault and Kubernetes. (by hashicorp)
helm-secrets
A helm plugin that help manage secrets with Git workflow and store them anywhere (by jkroepke)
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| 5 | 12 | |
| 786 | 1,499 | |
| 0.4% | - | |
| 8.7 | 8.1 | |
| 11 days ago | 17 days ago | |
| Go | Shell | |
| Mozilla Public License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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.
vault-k8s
Posts with mentions or reviews of vault-k8s.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-18.
- How to expose the UI and API endpoint in HA TLS RAFT config
- Raft heartbeat failures
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GitOps and Kubernetes – Secure Handling of Secrets
Hashicorp Vault k8s is an operator that modifies pods via a mutating webhook to connect between vault and pod via sidecars (additional containers) to provide secrets. This has the major advantage that no secret objects are created in Kubernetes here. The disadvantage is that this way only works with Vault.
- Practices to Retrieve Vault Credentials
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Solving ArgoCD Secret Management with the argocd-vault-plugin
They’ve made it so you can define the order that the vault sidecar starts in, so that the proxy will be running first. https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-k8s/issues/53
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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing vault-k8s and helm-secrets you can also consider the following projects:
kubernetes-external-secrets - Integrate external secret management systems with Kubernetes
sealed-secrets - A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets
sealed-secrets-web - A web interface for Sealed Secrets by Bitnami.
vault-secrets-operator - Create Kubernetes secrets from Vault for a secure GitOps based workflow.
argocd-vault-plugin - An Argo CD plugin to retrieve secrets from Secret Management tools and inject them into Kubernetes secrets
sops - Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets
sops-secrets-operator - Kubernetes SOPS secrets operator
argocd-operator - A Kubernetes operator for managing Argo CD clusters.
argo-rollouts - Progressive Delivery for Kubernetes
hull - The incredible HULL - Helm Uniform Layer Library - is a Helm library chart to improve Helm chart based workflows
git-crypt - Transparent file encryption in git
vault-k8s vs kubernetes-external-secrets
helm-secrets vs sealed-secrets
vault-k8s vs sealed-secrets-web
helm-secrets vs vault-secrets-operator
vault-k8s vs argocd-vault-plugin
helm-secrets vs sops
vault-k8s vs sops-secrets-operator
helm-secrets vs argocd-operator
vault-k8s vs sealed-secrets
helm-secrets vs argo-rollouts
helm-secrets vs hull
helm-secrets vs git-crypt