Secrets Management

Table of Contents

• Overview
• When to Use
• Quick Start
• Reference Guides
• Best Practices

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