Managing Secrets in a Container Environment

As we try to run more and more containers and services, and manage, distribute and update the credentials they need to talk to each other and process sensitive information, finding effective approaches to secrets management becomes essential.

Build-time injection, built-in functionality of orchestration frameworks, distributed key-value stores, configuration management utilities, mounted file systems (real, ramdisk, FUSE), temporary credential injection, co-processes, heuristic approaches...identifying the right approach to securely providing secrets to containers is definitely not trivial.

Jeff will discuss various approaches and their respective pros, cons, do's and don'ts to help you make more informed decisions on how to balance usability and security for your team or organization.

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Jeff Mitchell has hacked on dozens of open-source projects over the past decade. He joined HashiCorp after contributing to Consul, Terraform, and Vault while working as an infrastructure architect at Akamai. He is now living the dream of being paid to work on open-source software full-time as the project lead on Vault. He is currently enjoying a balmy winter in Boston with his wife, daughter, and two excessively needy cats. --
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