šŸ”„Letā€™s Do DevOps: EKS K8s & Python Fuzzy Staging with AWS Secrets Manager, K8s Init disk, Secrets Injection

Kyler Middleton
7 min readAug 8, 2022

This blog series focuses on presenting complex DevOps projects as simple and approachable via plain language and lots of pictures. You can do it!

Hey all!

Iā€™ve been deep diving into K8ā€™s CSI drivers for AWS Secrets Manager and ESO, the External Secrets Operator, an open source project thatā€™s similar. Both purport to allow pods to call secrets on demand from external sources on launch. And they do! But they do something thatā€¦

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Kyler Middleton

DevNetSecOps, DevRel, cloud security chick. I will teach you, itā€™s unavoidable. She/Her šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆšŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆ, INFJ-A, support the EFF!