Sync AWS Secrets Manager secrets with Kubernetes to expose it as an environment variable

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Using AWS secrets manager to store your Kubernetes secrets and retrieve data from the secrets manager give you couple of benefits.

  1. You don’t need to store your secrets as plaintext in configuration files, or use etcd access secrets through file system.
  2. You do not need to write custom codes to rotate Kubernetes secrets.
  3. Secrets can be made available only to those containers that actually need them.

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