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Kubernetes: DaemonSet

Introduction

Kubernetes is one of the widely used orchestration tools for container application and container management. With a variety of features and options, it helps organizations remove manual intervention at every stage. With lots of requirements & scenarios, the user or any organization deals with lots of Kubernetes resources types options which leads to having proper knowledge of every Kubernetes resources type to fit specific or combination of resources with different scenarios that organizations generally require. To know more about different Kubernetes resource types, you can visit the official documentation provided by Kubernetes. Continue reading “Kubernetes: DaemonSet”

AWS SECRET MANAGER


Introduction

Most of the IT companies are working or are migrating their infrastructure to the cloud environment for cost reduction, high availability, data security, and hassle-free setup. Companies create or use applications/databases on the cloud, where they need to authenticate via secrets (or credentials). These days protection of passwords is one of the challenges, and hard-coding the secrets into the system would be a major security issue. Hence, we can make use of the AWS service named Secret Manager that will be responsible for the management of secrets.

What is a Secret?

A secret is not just a pair of usernames and passwords. It might contain a set of credentials holding key-value pairs or connection details to access the related services. In AWS Secret manager, a secret has metadata:

An Amazon Resource Name, name of the secret, a description, a resource policy, and tags, ARN for an encryption key (an AWS KMS key that Secrets Manager uses to encrypt and decrypt the secret value), Information of rotation of secret.

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