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Teams struggle to move secrets safely between AWS and Kubernetes

Kubernetes operators report having to extract AWS Secrets Manager key/value pairs and list them individually in configuration, then update that configuration when the secret changes. A related Terraform request describes a different risk: reading Kubernetes secrets through a data source puts their values in Terraform state. Together, these signals point to friction in infrastructure secret handling, though the AWS-to-Kubernetes sync pain is the clearest repeated need.

For kubernetes and Terraform operators. Mentioned from Aug 2021 to Jan 2025 on GitHub.

4 different people described this problem in 2 separate discussions.

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  1. We have the same use case and struggling since very long time. Any clue or reference would be appreciated please !
  2. Same here, it's really painful to sync by hand and extract every key from Secrets Manager JSON
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