Secrets Manager - CI/CD Glossary Definition

A secrets manager stores secrets centrally and serves them to authorized consumers with access control and auditing.

A secrets manager is a system that securely stores, controls access to, and audits secrets such as API keys, passwords, and certificates, serving them to authorized consumers at run time.

A secrets manager keeps sensitive values out of source control and pipeline files, providing them only when a job runs.

In CI/CD

A pipeline fetches a database password from a secrets manager at run time rather than committing it, and every access is logged for audit.

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