When you store secrets in a Kubernetes cluster, by default those are stored in the etcd database within the master nodes. The same is true for secrets stored in an AKS cluster on Azure. The best practice for storing secrets is to store your secrets in KeyVault. Up to now, there was an opensource project […]
Category: Security
Don’t use environment variables in Kubernetes to consume secrets
Managing secrets is a complicated endeavor. Kubernetes has a native secrets implementation, that allows you to store and access secrets from your deployments. A while ago, I read a short free book on Kubernetes Security, by Liz Rice and Michael Hausenblas (apparently O’Reilly calls it a report, but I actually have a hard copy that […]