Secrets Management Archives

Configure EC2 the Cloud-Native Way Using AWS Parameter Store

October 16, 2020September 12, 2021 Austin Dewey2 Comments

The Twelve-Factor App, a commonly used set of guidelines for building cloud-native applications, requires an application to exhibit “strict separation of config from code“. A key takeaway from this guideline is that you should not configure credentials to data sources …

Auto-Refreshing Spring Connection Pools on Kubernetes with Vault

September 05, 2020September 14, 2020 Austin Dewey2 Comments

Fetching secrets with Vault Agent on Kubernetes is only half of the solution. Here’s a simple architecture to auto-refresh Spring’s connection pool when credentials are rotated.

Lightweight Secrets Management Tools for Git Encryption

January 28, 2019February 01, 2019 Austin DeweyLeave a comment

There are a lot of great open source tools out there for storing secrets in Git. Depending on your use cases, some will be better for you and your organization than others. In this post we’ll see how some of the most popular open source … “Lightweight Secrets Management Tools for Git Encryption”