Lightning Talk: How to Keep a Secret in GitOps, Without Keeping... - Nikita Kutselev & Daniel Hoang
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 2022-10-28

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Lightning Talk: How to Keep a Secret in GitOps, Without Keeping It in Git - Nikita Kutselev & Daniel Hoang, Akuity Inc

One of the biggest challenges to adopting GitOps is determining what strategy to use for secrets management.
In this session we will comprehensively compare 6 different tools that you can use to manage secrets in GitOps without violating the GitOps principles:
Sealed Secrets
Argo CD Vault Plugin
SOPS
Vault Agent
Secrets Store CSI Driver
External Secrets Operator
Afterwards we will share our experience evaluating these solutions, and why we chose External Secrets as the standard for our cloud infrastructure.