Secrets Management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)

Summary

Dedicated tools for storing, rotating and controlling access to sensitive credentials — going beyond a CI/CD platform's built-in secrets (Phase 6) to a centralized, auditable system with fine-grained access control.

How to Learn This

1Explore HashiCorp Vault or AWS Secrets Manager's basic concepts (storing and retrieving a secret).
2Learn why secret rotation (regularly changing credentials) reduces the blast radius of a leak.
3Understand the audit trail benefit: knowing exactly who accessed which secret and when.

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