Fetching Secrets in Kubernetes with the AWS Secrets Manager Agent Sidecar

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Managing secrets in Kubernetes can sound straightforward-until you actually implement it at scale. Common approaches include mounting Kubernetes secrets as environment variables, using an external secrets operator, or calling cloud SDKs directly from application code. Each option introduces trade-offs around caching, auditing, security boundaries, and application coupling. In this post, we walk through an alternative […]