Secrets Management
Table of Contents
Overview
Deploy and configure secure secrets management systems to store, rotate, and audit access to sensitive credentials, API keys, and certificates across your infrastructure.
When to Use
- Database credentials management
- API key and token storage
- Certificate management
- SSH key distribution
- Credential rotation automation
- Audit and compliance logging
- Multi-environment secrets
- Encryption key management
Quick Start
Minimal working example:
# vault-config.hcl
storage "raft" {
path = "/vault/data"
node_id = "node1"
}
listener "tcp" {
address = "0.0.0.0:8200"
tls_cert_file = "/vault/config/vault.crt"
tls_key_file = "/vault/config/vault.key"
}
api_addr = "https://0.0.0.0:8200"
cluster_addr = "https://0.0.0.0:8201"
ui = true
Reference Guides
Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:
| Guide | Contents | |---|---| | HashiCorp Vault Setup | HashiCorp Vault Setup | | Vault Kubernetes Integration | Vault Kubernetes Integration | | Vault Secret Configuration | Vault Secret Configuration | | AWS Secrets Manager Configuration | AWS Secrets Manager Configuration | | Kubernetes Secrets | Kubernetes Secrets |
Best Practices
✅ DO
- Rotate secrets regularly
- Use strong encryption
- Implement access controls
- Audit secret access
- Use managed services
- Implement secret versioning
- Encrypt secrets in transit
- Use separate secrets per environment
❌ DON'T
- Store secrets in code
- Use weak encryption
- Share secrets via email/chat
- Commit secrets to version control
- Use single master password
- Log secret values
- Hardcode credentials
- Disable rotation