GitOps shows great potential to eliminate knowledge bottlenecks and single points of failure from your infrastructure operations. Unfortunately it presents a challenge when handling secret material, like credentials to external dependencies: How do I keep my Secrets secret without having to handle them manually?
In this talk we will explore different cloud-native patterns to securely and efficiently handle Secrets in a GitOps workflow. From the "old way" with Sops to newer patterns, like Hashicorp Vault or External Secrets.
