Sync AWS Secrets Manager secrets with Kubernetes to expose it as an environment variable
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3 min readDec 2, 2022
Using AWS secrets manager to store your Kubernetes secrets and retrieve data from the secrets manager give you couple of benefits.
- You don’t need to store your secrets as plaintext in configuration files, or use etcd access secrets through file system.
- You do not need to write custom codes to rotate Kubernetes secrets.
- Secrets can be made available only to those containers that actually need them.